Re: Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:33:05PM -0500, Bruce Momjian allegedly wrote:
> > Sure 'ps -U' will work, but it was reported that on Solaris, plain ps
> > can't show the postgres status display, while ucb/ps can.  I don't need
> > specific columns.  What I need is the postgres status parameters, and if
> > possible, a user restriction to ps for performance reasons.
>
> My mistake. Have a look at this snippet from the ps manpage:
>
> |      args  The command with all its arguments as  a  string.  The
> |            implementation  may  truncate  this value to the field
> |            width;  it  is  implementation-dependent  whether  any
> |            further  truncation  occurs. It is unspecified whether
> |            the string represented is a version  of  the  argument
> |            list  as it was passed to the command when it started,
> |            or is a version of the arguments as they may have been
> |            modified  by  the  application.   Applications  cannot
> |            depend on being able to modify their argument list and
> |            having that modification be reflected in the output of
> |            ps.  The Solaris implementation limits the  string  to
> |            80  bytes;  the  string is the version of the argument
> |            list as it was passed to the command when it started.
>
> Note the last line...

OK, I need someone on Solaris to test ps and /ucb/ps with regard to user
restriction inside ps, and display of PostgreSQL status display.

I have uploaded a new pgmonitor 0.33 version that has a show_all
configuration parameter.  This will show all PostgreSQL-owned processes
for use on operating systems that don't have PostgreSQL status display.

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