Re: rebellious pg stats collector (reopened case) - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> writes:
> maybe is it possible to change the source code, and disable the "is
> postmaster alive" check for testing?

Rather than disabling it, it'd probably be more convenient to make
any getppid value except 1 (the init process) be treated as "it's
alive".  Otherwise you'll have trouble with the collector not stopping
when you want it to.  Look into src/backend/storage/ipc/pmsignal.c:

-        return (getppid() == PostmasterPid);
+        return (getppid() != 1);

(Obviously this is a hack, but it should work on any Unixish system)

            regards, tom lane