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