Re: backends - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: backends
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Msg-id m37k4xbeal.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com
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In response to backends  ("Jenny -" <nat_lazy@hotmail.com>)
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"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

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