Re: [HACKERS] Re: pgmonitor and Solaris

Tom Lane previously wrote:
 > Looking at the sendmail code, it seems they use SPT_REUSEARGV (what
 > we call PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV) technique on Solaris.  Possibly the
 > problem is simply that line 65 in
 > src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c fails to cover Solaris as one of
 > the possible options:
 >
 > #elif defined(__linux__) || defined(_AIX4) || defined(_AIX3)
 > || defined(__sgi) || (defined(sun) && !defined(BSD))
 > || defined(ultrix) || defined(__ksr__) || defined(__osf__)
 > || defined(__QNX__) || defined(__svr4__) || defined(__svr5__)
 > #define PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV

> Can someone check whether adding an appropriate Solaris symbol
> (which one?) fixes the problem?


Tom Lane writes:
 > The interesting point about this is that the 7.0.3-on-2.7
 > installation *is* managing to change its PS display.  So either
 > Solaris 2.8 retrogressed (different predefined symbols maybe?), or
 > we broke the code since 7.0.3.
 > 
 > Anyway I think the right thing to look at is why the 7.1 install is
 > not managing to update the display.

The identifier sun is not set if the compiler is in -Xc mode.  It
would be safer to use to use __sun which is defined in all compiler
modes.  The symbols defined in all modes are __sun, __unix,
__SUNPRO_C=0x500 (or 400, 420, etc.), __`uname -s`_`uname -r`
(e.g. __SunOS_5_8), __sparc (SPARC), __sparcv9 (SPARC with
-xarch=v9|v9a), __i386 (x86), __BUILTIN_VA_ARG_INCR, __SVR4.

That applies to the native compiler.  Perhaps someone else could
establish what Solaris specific defines are available in gcc.
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