3 postgres processes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Markova, Nina
Subject 3 postgres processes
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Msg-id 6D8C7E015447D0428D80E9DBABA06A1E03F4A857@S0-OTT-X2.nrn.nrcan.gc.ca
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In response to Postgres in a solaris zone - patch 125077-02 needed  ("Markova, Nina" <nmarkova@NRCan.gc.ca>)
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Hi,

After issuning initdb and starting the postgres server, I checked for processes running, expecting to see just one:

postgres  4926  4924   0 14:44:52 ?           0:00 /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres
postgres  4924     1   0 14:44:52 pts/1       0:00 /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres
postgres  4929  4850   0 14:44:56 pts/1       0:00 grep postgres
postgres  4928  4850   0 14:44:56 pts/1       0:00 ps -ef
postgres  4927  4924   0 14:44:52 ?           0:00 /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres


Only one of them is in postmaster.pid. What the other ones are for?

 more /pg_data/postmaster.pid
4924
/pg_data
  5432001        31


Thanks,

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