The known ones are postmaster and one backends per connection. There is a
service process forked by postmaster periodically. What does it do? Does the
system use sperate processes to detect and recollect freed buffers?



Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:26:36 -0500
"xin" <shenxin@sympatico.ca>
How many processes running on the server side?
"xin" <shenxin@sympatico.ca> writes:
> The known ones are postmaster and one backends per connection. There is a
> service process forked by postmaster periodically. What does it do?

Checkpoint, probably.  In 7.2 the checkpointer should identify itself
via ps status.

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 03 Dec 2001 13:27:18 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: How many processes running on the server side? 