On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: >> Alexey Klyukin <al...@commandprompt.com> writes: >>> I always wondered why ps ax|grep postgres shows several extra blank lines >>> after the process name, i.e. > >> AFAIR it's always done that on OSX. I thought we'd tried the '\0' >> padding way back when and it didn't work nicely, but maybe Apple fixed >> that. > > I tried this on a PPC Mac running 10.4.11, which is the oldest Mac OS > I have handy at the moment. It worked fine. The existing coding in > ps_status.c dates from late 2001, which means that it was first tested > against OS X 10.1, and most likely we have not rechecked the question > of what PS_PADDING value to use since then. My guess is that Apple > must have changed this in OS X 10.2 or 10.3, because the userland > Unix utilities were pretty well settled after that. > > So I think we could definitely apply this change to HEAD/9.0, and I'm > strongly tempted to back-patch further than that. Does anybody think > that any pre-10.4 OS X versions are still in use, or would be likely > to receive Postgres updates if they do exist?
I don't think we should back-patch this. It's not a bug fix, just a convenience. We already have enough trouble with people not believing that our minor releases are safe, and having non-critical stuff in the release notes does not help our case. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
