You're wrong.
Let's take a look:
Section 18.3.1
> HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432?
What is the name of the process used here? 12 лип. 2026 р. о 10:12 Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> пише:
On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 07:46 +0300, Yaroslav Saburov wrote:postgres@sql:~$ cat /pgdatabase/data/postmaster.pid 58/pgdatabase/data17838306995432/var/run/postgresqllocalhost 24381256 0ready postgres@sql:~$ ps 58 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 58 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/postgres -D /pgdatabase/data -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/18/main/postgresql.confShow me process postmaster?You found it!"Postmaster" is not the name of the executable or the process title (any more),it is just what we call that process. It is a technical term.Yours,Laurenz Albe
postgres@sql:~$ cat /pgdatabase/data/postmaster.pid
58
/pgdatabase/data
1783830699
5432
/var/run/postgresql
localhost
24381256 0
ready
postgres@sql:~$ ps 58
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
58 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/postgres -D /pgdatabase/data -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/18/main/postgresql.conf
Show me process postmaster?
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