Re: set_ps_display on solaris x86

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

Bruce> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> writes:
>> > Sadly, set_ps_display does not seem to have any effect in solaris
>> > x86. At least ps only reports multiple postmaster processes and
>> > arguments.
>>
>> IIRC, you have to use the "other" version of ps to see the process
>> status on Solaris. I forget where it lives exactly, /usr/ucb maybe?

Bruce> Yep, monitoring chapter mentions it:

Thanks !

I was pointed to it by Kevin Brown in private email. He also showed me
how to teach ddd to use the right command as a helper.

Now I need to figure out how to get our sysadmins to make this value a
global change when our students first start ddd - so that they can
easily attach to the right postgres backend while debugging.

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