Re: postmaster respawn....?

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:18:07 -0400
pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org wrote:
>
> I'm sure there is only one postmaster running on my server but everytime i do 
> a series of ps ax | grep post..
> 
> **1st ps
> 
>   510 ?        R      4:25 /usr/bin/postmaster -o -F -i
>  1235 ?        S    119:12 /usr/bin/postgres localhost nsadmin openacs idle
>
That is perfectly sane: for each db connection or session a new backend is
spawned. It is killed when the connection is closed.

Thus you see on postmaster (= PG daemon) and several backends.

Christoph Dalitz