diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 88b7e29a9248780ff0d36e3b8cb45ab59d8de0a0..4c07f37294158ce2557c7aa5e1d530a799713c21 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml,v 1.7 2002/03/22 19:20:14 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml,v 1.8 2002/07/31 01:49:12 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="monitoring">
@@ -480,11 +480,19 @@ postgres: <replaceable>user</> <replaceable>database</> <replaceable>host</> <re
       </entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry><function>backend_pid</function>()</entry>
+      <entry><type>integer</type></entry>
+      <entry>
+       Process ID of current backend
+      </entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry><function>pg_stat_get_backend_pid</function>(<type>integer</type>)</entry>
       <entry><type>integer</type></entry>
       <entry>
-       PID of backend process
+       Process ID of all backend processes
       </entry>
      </row>
 
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
index 6780665a11d63407b6933869bdc6a47262875b79..cc1f6488928884d2709a0430124a1b87461992c6 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pgstatfuncs.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ extern Datum pg_stat_get_blocks_fetched(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
 extern Datum pg_stat_get_blocks_hit(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
 
 extern Datum pg_stat_get_backend_idset(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
-extern Datum pg_stat_get_backend_mypid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
+extern Datum backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
 extern Datum pg_stat_get_backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
 extern Datum pg_stat_get_backend_dbid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
 extern Datum pg_stat_get_backend_userid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ pg_stat_get_backend_idset(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 
 Datum
-pg_stat_get_backend_mypid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+backend_pid(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
 	PG_RETURN_INT32(MyProcPid);
 }
diff --git a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
index 66f4ea8a2c627ab8fa43dce1072fccff24c66b11..2c5979f9a45d0cd8677677fead21bc1221a642ab 100644
--- a/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
+++ b/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: pg_proc.h,v 1.247 2002/07/31 00:40:40 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: pg_proc.h,v 1.248 2002/07/31 01:49:13 momjian Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  The script catalog/genbki.sh reads this file and generates .bki
@@ -2703,8 +2703,8 @@ DATA(insert OID = 1935 (  pg_stat_get_blocks_hit		PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t f s 1 20
 DESCR("Statistics: Number of blocks found in cache");
 DATA(insert OID = 1936 (  pg_stat_get_backend_idset		PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t t s 0 23 ""	pg_stat_get_backend_idset - _null_ ));
 DESCR("Statistics: Currently active backend IDs");
-DATA(insert OID = 2026 (  pg_stat_get_backend_mypid		PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t f s 0 23 ""	pg_stat_get_backend_mypid - _null_ ));
-DESCR("Statistics: My backend ID");
+DATA(insert OID = 2026 (  backend_pid					PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t f s 0 23 ""	backend_pid - _null_ ));
+DESCR("Statistics: Current backend ID");
 DATA(insert OID = 1937 (  pg_stat_get_backend_pid		PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t f s 1 23 "23"  pg_stat_get_backend_pid - _null_ ));
 DESCR("Statistics: PID of backend");
 DATA(insert OID = 1938 (  pg_stat_get_backend_dbid		PGNSP PGUID 12 f f t f s 1 26 "23"  pg_stat_get_backend_dbid - _null_ ));