Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>If we don't have a way to check this, we'll regret it soon enough...
>>now maybe a GUC setting isn't the optimal way, but I think we need
>>*some* way besides ps. ps doesn't work remotely and I think there's
>>no simple equivalent under Windows either.
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>
> Sure, but the GUC only reports that it thinks the stats collector
> started, not whether it is running or not. I think 'ps' is a fine way
> to tell.
Um, no such beast under win32. You can only see some postgres processes,
but can't distinguish them. We'd need some functions that examine the
pids known to the postmaster (pg_get_collector_pid, pg_get_logger_pid, ...)
Regards,
Andreas