Re: Cluster name in ps output

On 2014-05-05 08:03:04 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> * Craig Ringer (craig@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> >   postgres[5433]: checkpointer process
> > 
> > at least as useful. The only time that's not unique is in a BSD jail or
> > lxc container, and in those cases IIRC ps can show you the
> > jail/container anyway.
> 
> Uhh, that's not at all true.  You can trivially have multiple IPs on a
> box w/o jails or containers (aliased interfaces) and then run PG on the
> default port- which I find to be *far* more convenient than having the
> same IP and a bunch of different ports.

Only that you then need different socket directories. Do you really do
that regularly?

Anyway, I am happy having the cluster_name thingy.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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