| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: setproctitle() no longer used? |
| Date: | 2000-05-11 15:32:00 |
| Message-ID: | 200005111532.LAA13810@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > Oh. Can you look at the setproctitle code on your platform and see
> > > how it implements it?
> >
> > In the end I believe we'll make the world a better place if we're using
> > setproctitle when available. Sendmail does. If someone really complains
> > about speed loss we can always make it an option not to use it, but I
> > won't buy into that until I see some profiling evidence.
>
> Its a rare thing, but definitely agree with Peter here :)
I think I do too. Let me add this to the TODO list:
* use setproctitle() if it exists for 'ps' display of status
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