"Jenny -" <nat_lazy@hotmail.com> writes:
> when i start the postmaster i have multiple backends running even
> though i made sure to kill all the backends lingering from the
> previous run. is there a reason for this?
> while using gdb does it matter which backend's pid i use?
There will be a backend for each active connection, plus a
'postmaster' process (which handles the initial connection) and two
processes that handle statistics. So figure out which backend
corresponds to the connection you're using and attach to that.
-Doug