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
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Chris Williams
Sterling Software
Rome, New York
Phone: (315) 336-0500
Email: chris_d_williams@sterling.com


Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:07:42 -0500
"Chris Williams" <chris_d_williams@itd.sterling.com>
Question about postmaster processes
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> 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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Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:20:34 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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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>   maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
>   +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
>   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
> 
> 


Tue, 8 Dec 1998 22:52:06 +0200 (EET)
Hakan Kalyoncu <hk@yore.com.tr>
Re: [HACKERS] Question about postmaster processes