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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How many processes running on the server side?
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Msg-id 17825.1007404038@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to How many processes running on the server side?  ("xin" <shenxin@sympatico.ca>)
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"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

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