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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