Re: [HACKERS] update_process_title=off and logger, wal, ... processes

2009-12-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* Rod Taylor (rod.tay...@gmail.com) wrote: > I (stupidly?) installed PostgreSQL into a hostile environment which > didn't like this and decided to kill the processes as a result. > Unfortunately, I cannot change the environment. That's not hostile, that's broken. Stephen signature.asc D

Re: [HACKERS] update_process_title=off and logger, wal, ... processes

2009-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor writes: > With the update_process_title parameter set to off some PostgreSQL > processes still change their ps title to a different name than the > default. s/some/all/ ... they all do that. It's as designed. The parameter is intended to suppress the overhead of changing the title fo

[HACKERS] update_process_title=off and logger, wal, ... processes

2009-12-29 Thread Rod Taylor
With the update_process_title parameter set to off some PostgreSQL processes still change their ps title to a different name than the default. I appreciate this setting came about for performance reasons which the logger, wal writer, autovacuum, and stats collector would not have but I actually req