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"Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> writes:
> Now that fa88928470 generates automatically code and documentation
> related to wait events, why not exposing the wait events description
> through a system catalog relation?

I think you'd be better off making this a view over a set-returning
function.  The nearby work to allow run-time extensibility of the
set of wait events is not going to be happy with a static catalog.

			regards, tom lane