Re: setproctitle()

> > Comments?
>
> I would like to see it, but not for v7.0.1 ... unless you can figure out a
> cleaner way of doing it, the coding changes would be extensive ...
>
> I looked at it, and unless we go with global variables *yeech*, you would
> have to pass down the "fixed" part of the setproctitle to sub-functions
> (ie. argv[0-4](?)) ... I asked on one of the freebsd lists if anyone could
> suggest a way of getting 'argv[0]', but never did hear anything back ...
>
> If you want, you could just added, for v7.0.1, a simple addition of 'if
> __FreeBSD__' to the code, so that setproctitle is only used under FreeBSD
> ...

No, it is pretty easy to do it in pg_status.h alone. The trick is to
do sprintf(ps_status_buffer, "val val %s"), then use that in
setproctitle for every command.

I will code it up if no one objects.

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