Erik G. Burrows erik
Sun Jul 11 01:29:21 PDT 2004


> > 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.

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Erik G. Burrows - KG6HEA                          www.erikburrows.com
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