Re: update_process_title=off and logger, wal, ... processes

Rod Taylor <rod(dot)taylor(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> With the update_process_title parameter set to off some PostgreSQL
> processes still change their ps title to a different name than the
> default.

s/some/all/ ... they all do that. It's as designed. The parameter is
intended to suppress the overhead of changing the title for every
command, not to make it impossible to tell the child processes apart.

> I (stupidly?) installed PostgreSQL into a hostile environment which
> didn't like this and decided to kill the processes as a result.

That's one pretty d*mn hostile environment, all right. Consider
finding a less brain-dead platform.

regards, tom lane