Re: Add sub-transaction overflow status in pg_stat_activity

Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> writes:
> Like many I previously had to investigate a slowdown due to sub-transaction
> overflow, and even with the information available in a monitoring view (I had
> to rely on a quick hackish extension as I couldn't patch postgres) it's not
> terribly fun to do this way.  On top of that log analyzers like pgBadger could
> help to highlight such a problem.

It feels to me like far too much effort is being invested in fundamentally
the wrong direction here.  If the subxact overflow business is causing
real-world performance problems, let's find a way to fix that, not put
effort into monitoring tools that do little to actually alleviate anyone's
pain.

            regards, tom lane