Re: table size growing out of control

Tom Lane wrote:
> nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:45:12AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> >> ** with current_query blank I'm assuming we have nothing hanging around
> >> that would interfere right?. **
>
> > No, that could also indicate that either you're not the super-user, or you
> > haven't enabled stats_command_string in postgresql.conf
>
> > That probably isn't the best UI...
>
> Good point.  What do people think of making the pg_stat_activity view do
>     COALESCE(current_query, '<unknown>')
> so that there's a clear flag that you're not seeing anything?
>
> I'm not wedded to the particular string <unknown>, if someone has a
> better idea.

Yes, we really should report something on all the stats tables when they
aren't enabled.  Would safe a lot of headaches.

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