Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> 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 think I was one of the louder complainers about the lack of proctitle
information, but even I don't think it's worth holding up the release
for --- and it's certainly not worth taking a strong risk of breakage
at this stage. Let's put it on the to-do-for-6.4.1 list.

regards, tom lane