Re: [HACKERS] Question about postmaster processes

I observed the same situation with: SGI Origin 2000 and IRIX 6.5.

Hakan Kalyoncu


On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Since I have upgraded to postgres 6.4, when I do a "ps -ef |
> > grep post", I get a list of postmaster processes.  With 6.3.2
> > of postgres, I would have one postmaster process and many
> > different posgres processes.  Is this normal 6.4?  All I do is
> > start the postmaster process with the -i option.  Any help would
> > be great
> 
> We no longer exec() new postgres backends, but just fork the
> postmaster.  Faster, but your platform doesn't seem to support 'ps'
> args changes that we have made in the backend.  What platform are
> you using?
> 
> To find the postmaster, just get the parent of all the postmaster-named
> processes.
> 
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