Stale Process

Dear sir,
I built Apache, PHP-PostgreSql 7.1 web server in Linux
Redhat 7.0.
I always check the process by 'ps -aux' and always
found the stale postmaster processes:

postgres  9212  0.0  2.1  6136 2408 ?        S
Nov09   0:02 postgres: nobody newmy3qdb [local] idle
postgres 10617  0.0  2.4  5628 2740 ?        S
Nov09   0:02 postgres: nobody newmy3qdb [local] idle

The processes would not disappear if I don't kill the
processess.
I only use 'pg_connect' but never use
'pg_pconnect'(permanent connection), so why does it
happen and how to solve the problem so that the stale
process can automatically disappear?





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