Excerpts from Scott Marlowe's message of lun ago 09 18:29:58 -0400 2010: > If you want a date stamp, you can change the ps ax stuff to look like this: > > date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"|tr "\n" ":";ps ax|grep postgres:|grep -v grep|wc -l FWIW the "grep" business is best solved by ps itself, something like ps ax -C postgres date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"|tr "\n" ":";ps ax -C postgres|wc -l -- Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin