On 16/06/16 20:31, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 6/13/16 12:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> At the same time, I'm pretty suspicious of putting stuff like this in
>> core, because the expectations for cross-version compatibility go up
>> by orders of magnitude as soon as we do that.
>
> On a first go-round, I don't think we should add entire views, but
> rather functions that serve specific purposes. For table bloat that
> means a function that returns what the heap size should be based on
> pg_stats. For locking, it means providing information about which PID is
> blocking which PID. After that, most everything else is just window
> dressing.
We already have that second one: pg_blocking_pids(integer)
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