On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 04:30:07PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> At Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:38:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote in 
> > Patch applied to master, thanks.
> 
> The patch (8e8a0becb3) named archiver process as just "archiver".  On
> the other hand the discussion in the thread [1] was going to name the
> process as "WAL/wal archiver".  As all other processes related to WAL
> are named as walreceiver, walsender, walwriter, wouldn't we name the
> process like "wal archiver"?
> 
> [1]: 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200319195410.icib45bbgjwqb...@alap3.anarazel.de

Agreed.  I ended up moving "wal" as a separate word, since it looks
cleaner;  patch attached.  Tools that look for the backend type in
pg_stat_activity would need to be adjusted;  it would be an
incompatibility.  Maybe changing it would cause too much disruption.


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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
index a7b7b12249..2d625ee01e 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
@@ -221,16 +221,16 @@ GetBackendTypeDesc(BackendType backendType)
 			backendDesc = "startup";
 			break;
 		case B_WAL_RECEIVER:
-			backendDesc = "walreceiver";
+			backendDesc = "wal receiver";
 			break;
 		case B_WAL_SENDER:
-			backendDesc = "walsender";
+			backendDesc = "wal sender";
 			break;
 		case B_WAL_WRITER:
-			backendDesc = "walwriter";
+			backendDesc = "wal writer";
 			break;
 		case B_ARCHIVER:
-			backendDesc = "archiver";
+			backendDesc = "wal archiver";
 			break;
 		case B_STATS_COLLECTOR:
 			backendDesc = "stats collector";

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