Re: Postgres Server backend process

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Jayadevan M *EXTERN*" <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres Server backend process
Date: 2013-11-15 11:08:22
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17C59FFF@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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Jayadevan M wrote:
> The code has these comments -
> "When a request message is received, we now fork() immediately. The child process performs
> authentication of the request,"
>
> Now authentication is done by the Backend process and not by the daemon?

Yes.

The authentication is called in InitPostgres(), which is called in PostgresMain().

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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