That's what I get for not testing enough. Sorry for the double post, but
this patch should be preferred over the original, if actually
connecting to the database is important to you...

> I've only been using Slony-I for a few days, but I already love it! It's
> going to make database migrations and upgrades much, much easier.
> However, I didn't like the fact that the PostgreSQL connection string
> passed to the slon process shows up in 'ps' output.
> 
> Attached is my patch to slon.c to erase the argv entry with the
> connection string after slon finishes processing it's arguments, and
> restore it in case of a restart. I'm not sure how portable this fix is,
> but it should work on most *nix platforms, I think. I hope you find it
> useful.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Erik G. Burrows
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