Re: system views for walsender activity

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:50:12AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > Eh... I may be showing my status as a non-normal human, but I know
> > exactly what pg_stat_walsender is (it's the view that shows you the
> > status of the WAL senders you've allowed by configuring
> > max_wal_senders>0) but I have no idea what pg_stat_replication_sent
> > and pg_stat_replication_received are supposed to be.  Why two views?
> > *scratches head in confusion*
> 
> How about one view, called "pg_stat_replication"?  This would be clear
> even to newbies, which none of the other view names would ...

Wait.  We can't do that.  We'd be breaking a decades-old tradition of
terrible names! ;)

Cheers,
David.
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