Tom Lane wrote:
> I wonder whether your tracing tool is affecting the result of
> getppid(). Most people would consider that a bug in the tracing tool.
Probably having a close look at the PPID column in ps or top during the
truss run would prove this.
Still, the actual problem being debugged is something else.
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