From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199810281649.LAA22860@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
In-Reply-To: <m0zYYqF-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de> from Jan Wieck at
	"Oct 28, 1998  5:53: 3 pm"
To: jwieck@debis.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:49:59 -0500 (EST)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
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> >
> > Here are the open items.  Thanks to Jan, the only 'hot' item left is the
> > ps args issue.  People on non-BSD platforms will see all their backends
> > called 'postmaster', because argv[0] changes do not reflect in ps arg
> > displays.
> >
> > I have asked that at least we get set_proctitle() working for Linux, but
> > no one wants to do it, and we can't remove the it because we would have
> > to add the exec() back into backend creation, which is impossible at
> > this point.
> 
>     I'm running Linux 2.1.88 and get
> 
>     15572  p2 S     0:01 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -o -F
>     16121  p2 S     0:01 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres localhost twieck twieck idle
> 
>     from ps. So what isn't working?

Whoh, this is a shock.  I thought this trick did not work under Linux. 
If it does, and no one has complained, we can consider the issue closed.

Massimo did a nice job of moving my ps status stuff into pg_status.h,
but it looks like the same code that modifies argv[0].  Perhaps it is
the Linux version you are using.

It give us a cheap 'db monitor' capability, wrapped into the 'ps'
command.

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