From: | Tom <tom(at)sdf(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Some items for the TODO list |
Date: | 1998-07-09 17:48:01 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.95q.980709104630.27458B-100000@misery.sdf.com |
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On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> Things I'd like to see get in there before 6.4:
>
> 1. On HPUX, the new no-exec method of starting the backend means that
> all the backends claim to be "postmaster"; there's no way to tell 'em
> apart via ps(1). There is some code in postgres.c that tries to update
> the process title information by tweaking the original argv[] array, but
> that just plain doesn't work under HPUX, nor under quite a few other
> Unix variants. I'm finding out that not being able to tell which
> process is which is a real pain in the neck; I don't think it will be
> acceptable for production use. I think we are going to have to bite the
> bullet and borrow the process-title-setting code from sendmail --- I
> know it's ugly, but it *works* on many many Unixes.
Many UNIXes have a setproctitle() function, either in libc or libutil.
I think a native function should be used if exists.
Tom
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