Ross J. Reedstrom writes:
> Another aspect of this problem is that, on most platforms, the children
> of postmaster that are forked for each connection rename themselves
> to 'postgres'. The code for this was changed, recently, due to some
> potential speed, security, or portability problems (I'm not sure off
> the top of my head). You may be on a platform that no longer renames,
No, the code was changed to work on more platforms, not less. I think on
Solaris you need to use /usr/ucb/bin/ps (BSD style) rather than
/usr/bin/ps (SysV style) to see the altered information.
> so you'll end up with multiple processes names 'postmaster', and have
> to track down which is which they way Peter pointed out.
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