Re: reporting reason for certain locks

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue nov 25 13:23:42 -0300 2010:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > No, what I was suggesting was taking the existing function:
> > extern void pgstat_report_waiting(bool waiting);
> > ...and instead doing something like this:
> > extern void pgstat_report_waiting(char *reason);
> > ...and then arrange to pass the reason via the eponymous argument.
> 
> The question is how many cycles are we willing to expend on preparing a
> reason string that (in approximately 99.9% of the calls) will not be
> of any use.  It would be much better to avoid doing this and instead
> expend the extra work on the inspection side.

I'm all for making this cheap -- and your proposal works for tuple
locks (ugly however it may be).  But it doesn't work for "snapshot"
locks such as the ones CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY takes.

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