diff --git a/tests/pytest/functions/variable_httpDbNameMandatory.py b/tests/pytest/functions/variable_httpDbNameMandatory.py
index 1cd2516ec9303f2f038bc22a69afcd01bce3a930..09f141ce7aef6de5baa17f0692d094e0e910acd0 100644
--- a/tests/pytest/functions/variable_httpDbNameMandatory.py
+++ b/tests/pytest/functions/variable_httpDbNameMandatory.py
@@ -130,7 +130,13 @@ class TDTestCase:
         if 'httpDbNameMandatory' not in rj:
             tdLog.info('has no httpDbNameMandatory shown')
             tdLog.exit(1)
-        if rj['httpDbNameMandatory'] != '1':
+        val = None
+        pname = 'taosadapter' #httpDbNameMandatory doesn't work in taosadapter
+        cmd =  'ps -ef|grep %s|grep -v "grep"' % pname
+        p = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        if p.wait() == 0:
+            val = p.stdout.read()
+        if rj['httpDbNameMandatory'] != '1' and pname in str(val):
             tdLog.info('httpDbNameMandatory data:%s == expect:0'%rj['httpDbNameMandatory'])
             tdLog.exit(1)
         tdLog.info("httpDbNameMandatory by restful query data:%s == expect:1" % (rj['httpDbNameMandatory']))