Re: procpid?

On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Can someone explain why pg_stat_activity has a column named procpid and
>> not simply pid?  'pid' is that pg_locks uses, and 'procpid' is redundant
>> (proc-process-id).  A mistake?
>
> Well, we refer to the slots that backends use as "procs" (really
> PGPROC), so I'm guessing that this was intended to mean "the pid
> associated with the proc".  It might not be the greatest name but I
> can't see changing it now.

It's damn annoying... enough so that I'd personally be in favor of creating a pid column that has the same data so we
candeprecate procpid and eventually remove it... 
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