Volker =?ISO-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= <volker@twisted-nerve.de> writes:
> We have a problem with our postmaster process, which normaly runs on port
> 5432. From time to time it spawns another process which listens on port
> 10000 - which also happens to be the port for our own server. I don't find
> any configuration option which could cause this behaviour.
[ excuse me while I retrieve my eyebrows from the back side of my head ]
There isn't anything in the PG code that would do that. Have you got
any modified code in there? It might be educational to attach to the
port-10000-using process with a debugger and get a stack trace from it.
regards, tom lane