Re: [ADMIN] When postgres will be faster? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [ADMIN] When postgres will be faster?
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Msg-id 199912011743.MAA22976@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > postmaster forks() and does not do an exec().
> 
> >From postmaster log:
> 
> FindExec: found "/usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
> 
> ps ax|grep pos
> 
> 10665  ?  R    0:01 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres main.comset.com polithit pol
> 13329  ?  S    0:24 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postmaster -i -D/usr/comset/dbase/dat
> 
> These samples push me thinking it was fork/exec... :-(

We re-exec the postmaster so it has an absolute path, which is sometimes
needed for dynamic loading.  We also need 5 paramaters to we can do ps
display if forked backends.

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