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

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, switched as ready for committer. One note for the committer
> though: keeping the calls of pgstat_bestart() out of
> BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection() and
> BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid() keeps users the
> possibility to not have backends connected to the database show up in
> pg_stat_activity. This may matter for some users (cloud deployment for
> example). I am as well in favor in keeping the work of those routines
> minimal, without touching at pgstat.

I think that's just inviting bugs of omission, in both core and
extension code.  I think it'd be much better to do this in a
centralized place.

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