Message-Id: <m0zYYqF-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de>
From: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:53:03 +0100 (MET)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Reply-To: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
In-Reply-To: <199810281616.LAA17538@candle.pha.pa.us> from "Bruce Momjian" at
	Oct 28, 98 11:16:42 am
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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?


Jan

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