On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> Things I'd like to see get in there before 6.4:
>
> 1. On HPUX, the new no-exec method of starting the backend means that
> all the backends claim to be "postmaster"; there's no way to tell 'em
> apart via ps(1). There is some code in postgres.c that tries to update
> the process title information by tweaking the original argv[] array, but
> that just plain doesn't work under HPUX, nor under quite a few other
> Unix variants. I'm finding out that not being able to tell which
> process is which is a real pain in the neck; I don't think it will be
> acceptable for production use. I think we are going to have to bite the
> bullet and borrow the process-title-setting code from sendmail --- I
> know it's ugly, but it *works* on many many Unixes.
Many UNIXes have a setproctitle() function, either in libc or libutil.
I think a native function should be used if exists.
Tom