Re: [HACKERS] keeping track of connections

> Here's one for you...and don't laugh at me, eh? :)
>
> postmaster starts up to listen for connections, and then starts up its own
> backend to handle database queries? So, on a quiet system, you would have
> two processes running, one postmaster, and one postgres...
>
> basically, the idea is that postmaster can't talk to a table, only
> postgres can...so, setup postmaster the same way that any other interface
> is setup...connect to a backend and pass its transactions through that
> way...

So have the postmaster use the libpq library to open a database
connection and execute queries. Sounds interesting.

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