Re: Hide db name and user name in process list arguments

Gavrina, Irina, 16.02.2011 15:50:
> Hi,
>
> On Unix systems Postgres process list can be accessible through‘ps’ utility:
>
>
> ps auxww | grep ^postgres
> $ ps auxww | grep ^postgres
> postgres 960 0.0 1.1 6104 1480 pts/1 SN 13:17 0:00 postmaster -i
> postgres 963 0.0 1.1 7084 1472 pts/1 SN 13:17 0:00 postgres: stats buffer process
> postgres 965 0.0 1.1 6152 1512 pts/1 SN 13:17 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
> postgres 998 0.0 2.3 6532 2992 pts/1 SN 13:18 0:00 postgres: tgl runbug 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres 1003 0.0 2.4 6532 3128 pts/1 SN 13:19 0:00 postgres: tgl regression [local] SELECT waiting
> postgres 1016 0.1 2.4 6532 3080 pts/1 SN 13:19 0:00 postgres: tgl regression [local] idle in transaction
>
> And each client connection has its command line which displays in form:
>
> postgres: /user//database//host//activity/
>
> Is there any way to hide dbname and user name in displayed arguments of client connections?

I think that's what the configuration property update_process_title is for.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-statistics.html#GUC-UPDATE-PROCESS-TITLE

Regards
Thomas