Vikas Sharma <shavikas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> So is it normal for postgres to fork out new postmaster processes from the
> same data directory? I haven't seen this earlier.
They're not postmasters, they're child processes, as you can easily tell
from the PID/PPID columns of your ps output. But a process inherits its
title from the parent at fork(), and per this discussion, they haven't
changed it yet.
regards, tom lane