Re: backend type in log_line_prefix?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 04:30:07PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> At Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:38:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote in 
> > Patch applied to master, thanks.
> 
> The patch (8e8a0becb3) named archiver process as just "archiver".  On
> the other hand the discussion in the thread [1] was going to name the
> process as "WAL/wal archiver".  As all other processes related to WAL
> are named as walreceiver, walsender, walwriter, wouldn't we name the
> process like "wal archiver"?
> 
> [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200319195410.icib45bbgjwqb5zn@alap3.anarazel.de

Agreed.  I ended up moving "wal" as a separate word, since it looks
cleaner;  patch attached.  Tools that look for the backend type in
pg_stat_activity would need to be adjusted;  it would be an
incompatibility.  Maybe changing it would cause too much disruption.


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