Re: What is postmaster doing?

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dimi Paun <dimi(at)lattica(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What is postmaster doing?
Date: 2010-10-20 21:47:21
Message-ID: AANLkTi=0r-8OgG5OQuBNF0UVDkDA6aqmJu6qOqS-Mw4k@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dimi Paun <dimi(at)lattica(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hm, what ps options did you use?  I'm having a hard time reproducing
>>> your display format on Fedora 13 (procps-3.2.8-7.fc13.x86_64).
>
>> Sorry, it wasn't a ps output, it was a line from top(1).
>
> Oh, yeah, top typically doesn't give you the up-to-date process command
> line.  Next time try ps, or pg_stat_activity.

Or use htop. it identifies all the basic postgresql processes by job,
like logger process, writer process and so on.

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