Re: How many postmasters should be running?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Stock, Stuart" <Stuart(dot)Stock(at)DrKW(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How many postmasters should be running?
Date: 2006-02-28 18:14:23
Message-ID: 16914.1141150463@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Stock, Stuart" <Stuart(dot)Stock(at)DrKW(dot)com> writes:
> Perhaps I'm just seeing a moment-in-time snapshot of the postmaster
> fork()'ing to handle these connections, but because they were rejected, it
> never had time to rename itself to 'postgres'?

There's definitely a short window between the fork and the point where
the child process is able to change the way it appears in ps.
[ eyes code... ] In particular, if you have log_hostname enabled,
it looks like we could wait for a DNS response (to the lookup of the
client IP address) before we change the ps status.

regards, tom lane

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