Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> What is the difference between the postmaster binary and the postgres
> binary? Does the postmaster act as nothing more than a multiplexor for
> postgres processes or something?
The binaries are the same -- one is a symlink to the other. This allows
us to fork postgres children of the postmaster with no exec(). The
binary does read argv[0] and behaves differently depending on which
binary name it was called under.
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