On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Now, for pg_stat_activity part of the argument why this wouldn't be > confusing was that you could also see the "state" field. Maybe we > should try to shoehorn equivalent info into the crash log entry?
Yeah, I think so. Really, I think this is an inadvertency, and thus a
Yeah, I agree. That was nothing I recall thinking about at the time, so strictly speaking it's a bug.
bug. But instead of just not showing the query when the backend is idle, I'd change the display for that case to:
DETAIL: Failed process was idle; last query was: %s
Or something like that. I guess we'd need another case for a backend that crashed without ever running a query.