Re: postgresql and process titles

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Kris Kennaway <kris(at)obsecurity(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql and process titles
Date: 2006-06-13 20:44:20
Message-ID: 20060613204420.GI19212@svana.org
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:35:24PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> ... The main objection I see to this is that it replaces a kernel
> call that actually does some work with a kernel call to start a timer,
> plus possibly a later kernel call to actually do the work. Not clear
> that there's a win there.

And ofcourse it's an almost guarenteed loss on systems that don't
require a syscall to set the proc title.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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