Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:48:27PM -0500, Tom Lane allegedly wrote:
> Mathijs Brands <mathijs@ilse.nl> writes:
> > PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV -is- used on Solaris. I just checked.
>
> Hm.  But 7.1 postgres backends fail to change their ps display?
> Does sendmail change its ps display on your machine?

template1=# \set
VERSION = 'PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7, compiled by gcc 2.95.2'
DBNAME = 'template1'
USER = 'mathijs'
PORT = '5432'
ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII'
PROMPT1 = '%/%R%# '
PROMPT2 = '%/%R%# '
PROMPT3 = '>> '
HISTSIZE = '500'
template1=#
[1]+  Stopped                 psql template1
jumpstart.l3.ilse.nl:/export/home/mathijs >/usr/ucb/ps auxww|grep post
mathijs    297  0.1  0.2 6120 3352 pts/1    S 01:59:18  0:00 /opt/pgsql/bin/./postgres mathijs localhost template1 idle
mathijs    319  0.1  0.1  944  696 pts/3    S 01:59:45  0:00 grep post
mathijs  25810  0.0  0.1 5736 2160 pts/1    S 20:44:34  0:00 /opt/pgsql/bin/./postmaster


template1=# \set
VERSION = 'PostgreSQL 7.1RC1 on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, compiled by GCC 2.95.3'
DBNAME = 'template1'
USER = 'mathijs'
PORT = '5432'
ENCODING = 'SQL_ASCII'
PROMPT1 = '%/%R%# '
PROMPT2 = '%/%R%# '
PROMPT3 = '>> '
template1=# ^Z[1] + Stopped (SIGTSTP)        psql template1
$ /usr/ucb/ps auxww|grep post
mathijs   8072  0.1  1.4 5552 3352 pts/2    S 01:01:43  0:00 ./postmaster -D /export/home/mathijs/pgtest/data
mathijs   8074  0.1  0.3  976  672 pts/2    S 01:01:55  0:00 grep post
mathijs   8067  0.1  0.8 4912 1984 pts/2    S 01:01:37  0:00 ./postmaster -D /export/home/mathijs/pgtest/data

I guess it doesn't work :( Of course, it's also possible it doesn't
work on Solaris 8, but does on 7. I'll check this and if this is the
case, I'll post it.

Regards,

Mathijs
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