diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 38bf63658ae..8a3cf5d4c36 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
$ ps auxww | grep ^postgres
postgres 15551 0.0 0.1 57536 7132 pts/0 S 18:02 0:00 postgres -i
-postgres 15554 0.0 0.0 57536 1184 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: writer process
-postgres 15555 0.0 0.0 57536 916 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: checkpointer process
-postgres 15556 0.0 0.0 57536 916 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: wal writer process
-postgres 15557 0.0 0.0 58504 2244 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
-postgres 15558 0.0 0.0 17512 1068 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
+postgres 15554 0.0 0.0 57536 1184 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: background writer
+postgres 15555 0.0 0.0 57536 916 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: checkpointer
+postgres 15556 0.0 0.0 57536 916 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: walwriter
+postgres 15557 0.0 0.0 58504 2244 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher
+postgres 15558 0.0 0.0 17512 1068 ? Ss 18:02 0:00 postgres: stats collector
postgres 15582 0.0 0.0 58772 3080 ? Ss 18:04 0:00 postgres: joe runbug 127.0.0.1 idle
postgres 15606 0.0 0.0 58772 3052 ? Ss 18:07 0:00 postgres: tgl regression [local] SELECT waiting
postgres 15610 0.0 0.0 58772 3056 ? Ss 18:07 0:00 postgres: tgl regression [local] idle in transaction
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ $ psql -c 'SHOW cluster_name'
(1 row)
$ ps aux|grep server1
-postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: server1: writer process
+postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: server1: background writer
...
diff --git a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
index b14e6f79244..8287de97a2a 100644
--- a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
+++ b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
@@ -321,19 +321,19 @@ AuxiliaryProcessMain(int argc, char *argv[])
switch (MyAuxProcType)
{
case StartupProcess:
- statmsg = "startup process";
+ statmsg = pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_STARTUP);
break;
case BgWriterProcess:
- statmsg = "writer process";
+ statmsg = pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_BG_WRITER);
break;
case CheckpointerProcess:
- statmsg = "checkpointer process";
+ statmsg = pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_CHECKPOINTER);
break;
case WalWriterProcess:
- statmsg = "wal writer process";
+ statmsg = pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_WAL_WRITER);
break;
case WalReceiverProcess:
- statmsg = "wal receiver process";
+ statmsg = pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_WAL_RECEIVER);
break;
default:
statmsg = "??? process";
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index 776b1c0a9d5..b745d8962e2 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ AutoVacLauncherMain(int argc, char *argv[])
am_autovacuum_launcher = true;
/* Identify myself via ps */
- init_ps_display("autovacuum launcher process", "", "", "");
+ init_ps_display(pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_AUTOVAC_LAUNCHER), "", "", "");
ereport(DEBUG1,
(errmsg("autovacuum launcher started")));
@@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ AutoVacWorkerMain(int argc, char *argv[])
am_autovacuum_worker = true;
/* Identify myself via ps */
- init_ps_display("autovacuum worker process", "", "", "");
+ init_ps_display(pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_AUTOVAC_WORKER), "", "", "");
SetProcessingMode(InitProcessing);
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
index ddf9d698e04..1c6cf83f8c5 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgarch.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ PgArchiverMain(int argc, char *argv[])
/*
* Identify myself via ps
*/
- init_ps_display("archiver process", "", "", "");
+ init_ps_display("archiver", "", "", "");
pgarch_MainLoop();
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c b/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
index fd6ebc976af..3a0b49c7c40 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/pgstat.c
@@ -4224,7 +4224,7 @@ PgstatCollectorMain(int argc, char *argv[])
/*
* Identify myself via ps
*/
- init_ps_display("stats collector process", "", "", "");
+ init_ps_display("stats collector", "", "", "");
/*
* Read in existing stats files or initialize the stats to zero.
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 160b555294f..1bcbce537a4 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4266,14 +4266,14 @@ BackendInitialize(Port *port)
*
* For a walsender, the ps display is set in the following form:
*
- * postgres: wal sender process
+ * postgres: walsender
*
- * To achieve that, we pass "wal sender process" as username and username
+ * To achieve that, we pass "walsender" as username and username
* as dbname to init_ps_display(). XXX: should add a new variant of
* init_ps_display() to avoid abusing the parameters like this.
*/
if (am_walsender)
- init_ps_display("wal sender process", port->user_name, remote_ps_data,
+ init_ps_display(pgstat_get_backend_desc(B_WAL_SENDER), port->user_name, remote_ps_data,
update_process_title ? "authentication" : "");
else
init_ps_display(port->user_name, port->database_name, remote_ps_data,
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
index 3255b42c7d2..aeb117796d6 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/syslogger.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ SysLoggerMain(int argc, char *argv[])
am_syslogger = true;
- init_ps_display("logger process", "", "", "");
+ init_ps_display("logger", "", "", "");
/*
* If we restarted, our stderr is already redirected into our own input