Am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 15:47 schrieb Tom Lane: > Thomas Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Am Montag, 26. Juni 2006 22:15 schrieb Tom Lane: > >> What platform is that? If it's Solaris, see our doc/FAQ_Solaris > >> about getting more useful info from "ps". > > > > Yes, it's Solaris 10. Looking at > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_Solaris.html , I did not find > > anything related. Same with the doc/FAQ_Solaris from the > > postgresql-8.1.4 sources. > > Oh, sorry, I assumed it was in the Solaris FAQ, but actually the info > is at the bottom of this page: > Ok, it might be reasonable to duplicate it in the Solaris FAQ though... > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/monitoring.html > > There are several different conditions that can render "ps" useless on > Solaris :-(, and one of them is sprinkling the postmaster start command > with a lot of switches. Put that stuff in postgresql.conf, instead, > so you can invoke the postmaster as just "postmaster". > Oh yes. This explains, why I was missing quite some connections even with /usr/ucb/ps. Might be good to tell in the documentation to move the switches to postgresql.conf . Might otherwise produce additional questions... Oh, well, the 7.4 documentation states these things already as it does in 8.1. Sorry, don't know why I missed it. Maybe I had some other ideas in mind. Not monitoring, but administering or something like this. Thanks for your help, Thomas Mack TU Braunschweig, Institut für Informationssysteme
