On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> > I'm a bit puzzled about why you have three "postmaster" instances shown
> > as running.
>
> It's not unusual for "top" to show the postmaster's child processes as
> "postmaster" as well. Depends on the platform and the options given
> to top.
Ah. Thanks for clearing that one up. That'd make more sense, since it'd
mean the postmaster, bgwriter, and whichever of the stats collector/wal
writer exist in 8.1 were running.
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Craig Ringer
