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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