Hi Alex, > Patch attached.
Looks like the patch is missing. The archive shows no attachment. *> So with 10,000 other locks the direct path was about 16-17x faster in> these tests, while its cost stayed roughly constant.* I agree the new column is faster. My question is whether that matters in production. The frequent readers of these views are monitoring tools, and they usually poll every X seconds or slower. At that rate 4 ms per poll is noise, and your own pgbench run at 10 polls per second showed no difference either. So I'm not sure the cost alone is enough reason to add the column. For me, creating a view is the right approach. Thanks, Shihao
