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> > Sure, no problem. For my education, what made changing argv a headache? > > > > -Erik > > > > > On 7/10/2004 1:47 PM, Erik G. Burrows wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > We know from the PostgreSQL main project how much of a headache mucking > > > with the commandline arguments is. I would much more prefer changing the > > > slony commandline into taking a filename argument where to find all the > > > configuration parameters that are now passed with switches. Would you be > > > willing to rework it into something like that? > > > My understanding is the existing .pgpass (More information can be found at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-pgpass.html) already does > this for us. You're right, it works just fine. -- Erik G. Burrows - KG6HEA www.erikburrows.com PGP Key: http://www.erikburrows.com/files/erik.erikburrows.com.pgpkey
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