| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | David Mehringer <dmehring(at)astro(dot)uiuc(dot)edu>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: multiple postmasters |
| Date: | 2001-01-10 20:51:21 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0101102149560.22819-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Ross J. Reedstrom writes:
> Another aspect of this problem is that, on most platforms, the children
> of postmaster that are forked for each connection rename themselves
> to 'postgres'. The code for this was changed, recently, due to some
> potential speed, security, or portability problems (I'm not sure off
> the top of my head). You may be on a platform that no longer renames,
No, the code was changed to work on more platforms, not less. I think on
Solaris you need to use /usr/ucb/bin/ps (BSD style) rather than
/usr/bin/ps (SysV style) to see the altered information.
> so you'll end up with multiple processes names 'postmaster', and have
> to track down which is which they way Peter pointed out.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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