Re: monitoring database activity on solaris

OK, thanks. We're using pg_ctl to start it at the moment, but we can
obviously change that.

- DAP

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:18 PM
>To: David Parker
>Cc: postgres general
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] monitoring database activity on solaris
>
>"David Parker" <dparker@tazznetworks.com> writes:
>> According to the 7.4 doc section on monitoring database
>activity, one
>> should be able to see the current activity happening in a given
>> postgres process. It mentions that on Solaris (which we are running
>> on) you need to use /usr/ucb/ps, and it also says
>>
>> " your original invocation of the postmaster command must have a
>> shorter ps status display than that provided by each server process "
>
>Yeah.  This is a Solaris peculiarity that we only figured out
>by chance.
>The best bet is to make sure that your postmaster start script
>invokes the postmaster as
>    postmaster
>no more.  No path (set PATH beforehand instead).  No
>command-line switches (whatever you might want there can be
>put into postgresql.conf instead).  Redirection is OK, but
>keep the command line itself to a minimum.  "postmaster" and
>nothing else will be shorter than any of the ps display
>settings the postmaster's children use ... but if you have a
>bunch of command-line arguments, it'll be longer, and Solaris'
>ps will choose to display the wrong thing.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>