On 06/15/2011 04:13 AM, Rainer Pruy wrote:
> I much prefer reading an "<IDLE> in transaction" on a quick glance
> over having to search a column and recognize a "t" from an "f"
> to find out whether there is a transaction pending or not.
>
This is a fair observation. If we provide a second view here that
reorganizes the data toward something more appropriate for monitoring
systems to process it, you may be right that the result will be a step
backwards for making it human-readable. They may end up being similar,
co-existing views aimed at different uses, rather than one clearly
replacing the other one day.
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