Re: [HACKERS] exposing wait events for non-backends (was: Trackingwait event for latches)

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Kuntal Ghosh
<kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do have extended localBackendStatusTable with slots for non-backend
> processes. But, I've renamed it as localProcStatusTable since it
> includes all processes. I'll keep the variable name as
> localBackendStatusTable in the updated patch to avoid any confusion.
> I've extended BackendStatusArray to store auxiliary processes.
> Backends use slots indexed in the range from 1 to MaxBackends
> (inclusive), so we use MaxBackends + AuxProcType + 1 as the index of
> the slot for an auxiliary process.

I think the subject of this the thread, for which I'm probably to
blame, is bad terminology.  The processes we're talking about exposing
in pg_stat_activity here are really backends, too, I think.  They're
just ... special backends.  So I would tend to avoid any backend ->
process type of renaming.

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