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.TH PGMONITOR 1 "August 27, 2001"
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.SH NAME
pgmonitor \- monitor activity of PostgreSQL backends
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pgmonitor
.IR "" [ admin_user_name ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B pgmonitor
displays a window showing all current PostgreSQL backends on the machine
on which
.B pgmonitor
is run.
.PP
If
.B pgmonitor
is run by root or by the PostgreSQL administrator, it is able to find the
query curently being executed by a backend. It can also cancel a query,
terminate a backend or shutdown the postmaster.
.PP
The default
.I admin_user_name
is "postgres"; this should not need to be specified.
.PP
.BR pgmonitor " uses " ps
to find processes to display.
.SH Action Buttons
.TP
.B Refresh
Reload the display. (This normally happens regularly; the interval between
reloads is specified by the field next to the
.B Refresh
button.)
.TP
.B Sort
Displays a dialog in which the display order of the backend processes can
be changed.
.TP
.B Query
Displays a dialog box containing the query (if any) currently being
executed by the currently-selected backend.
.TP
.B Cancel
Cancels the query being run by the currently-selected backend.
.TP
.B Terminate
Closes the currently-selected backend.
.TP
.B Shutdown
Shuts down the PostgreSQL postmaster.
.TP
.B Help
Displays a help message.
.TP
.B Exit
Ends the pgmonitor program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR postmaster "(1), " postgres "(1), " pg_ctl (1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> for Debian GNU/Linux
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