From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200103252145.QAA17684@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: pgmonitor on solaris
In-Reply-To: <19504.985556231@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Mar 25,
	2001 04:37:11 pm"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:45:43 -0500 (EST)
CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roberto_Jo=E3o_Lopes_Garcia?= <roberto@mha.com.br>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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> > Roberto João Lopes Garcia writes:
> >> Is there a pgmonitor version for Solaris?? It dies with:
> >>
> >> Can't run 'ps': awk: syntax error near line 3
> >> awk: illegal statement near line 3
> >> awk: illegal statement near line 4
> >> Please send in a patch.
> 
> Looks like your problem is not with ps, but with awk.  pgmonitor uses
> a rather complicated awk program that is probably not too portable.
> I hadn't complained about it before because I checked that it worked
> with the vendor awk in HPUX, which I figured ought to be sufficiently
> behind the times ;-).  Looks like I was mistaken.  Bruce, can you
> simplify that awk program?

I can't figure out how to simplify it, but I did find the use of \{
instead of { in the code and released a new version, 0.27.  Hopefully
that will take care of it.  If not, I can start stripping lines out of
the awk program until we fine the problem.

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