Re: a few questions

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 06:21:28PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> I am working with PostgerSQL 8.0.0.
> where can i find the startup scripts for the same.

Well, it's been in contrib/strat-scripts since 8.0.0 so you should find
it there.

> One more thing,
> I could not understand this:
> number of processes is going to be at least 3+number of connections
>
> do u mean that for each connection there is a "postmaster" process? and what are those 3 processes?
> actually the ppl who use the application often use kill -9 postmaster. in such a case the pid file still remains.

One postmaster, 2 for the stats collector and possibly 1 for the
autovacuum daemon. Plus one for each connection to the database.

People shouldn't use kill -9 on the postmaster, they should use the
normal signals, or just "pg_ctl stop". Or if you use a startup script,
/etc/init.d/postgresql start/stop.

Have a nice day,
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