On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Except that on Solaris, ps -ef _always_ shows "postmaster", even for
> > the individual back ends.
>
> Right, but if you see a backend then you can figure the system is up.
Oops, good point. (And in any case, on Solaris you also have the ucb
ps, so it makes no difference.)
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