On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Gavin Sherry wrote:However, I'm not sure why an uptime is all that useful?
Bragging rights? :)
The folks who have a legitimate interest in that number can surely find it out from "ps". What I'm having a hard time with here is the value of allowing the number to be found out remotely. Most sites disabled remote "ps" decades ago, for good and sufficient reason.
There used to be a 'remote ps'? That I didn't know ...
But, back to the question at hand ... if we're worried about 'regular users' having access to it (which, I'm still a bit confused as to why, but that's in my other email) ... why not make it a 'superuser only' function? In fact, from that perspective, there would be use, since it would allow the admin to check remotely for situations where the server is/has crashed ... something that could also be easily (I'd imagine) to admin software like pgadmin, where if user has superuser access, a 'time since last reboot' could be included as part of the status screen ...
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