Re: What is postmaster doing? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Dimi Paun <dimi@lattica.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's probably a backend process, not the postmaster --- I suspect the
>> OP is using a version of ps that only tells you the original process
>> name by default.

> I'm running CentOS 5.5, using procps-3.2.7-16.el5.

Hm, what ps options did you use?  I'm having a hard time reproducing
your display format on Fedora 13 (procps-3.2.8-7.fc13.x86_64).

            regards, tom lane