Re: [ADMIN] When postgres will be faster?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: sk(dot)list(at)comset(dot)net
Cc: Marcin Mazurek - Multinet SA - Poznan <m(dot)mazurek(at)multinet(dot)pl>, pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] When postgres will be faster?
Date: 1999-12-01 17:43:50
Message-ID: 199912011743.MAA22976@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > postmaster forks() and does not do an exec().
>
> >From postmaster log:
>
> FindExec: found "/usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
>
> ps ax|grep pos
>
> 10665 ? R 0:01 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres main.comset.com polithit pol
> 13329 ? S 0:24 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postmaster -i -D/usr/comset/dbase/dat
>
> These samples push me thinking it was fork/exec... :-(

We re-exec the postmaster so it has an absolute path, which is sometimes
needed for dynamic loading. We also need 5 paramaters to we can do ps
display if forked backends.

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