"Simpson" <asimpson(at)i-55(dot)com> writes:
> Here is a ps of the currently running instance:
> postgres 5671 1 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /data/pgsql/data
> postgres 5674 5671 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: writer process
> postgres 5675 5671 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: stats buffer
> process
> postgres 5676 5675 0 02:32 pts/0 00:00:00 postgres: stats collector
> process
> 5676 is in the */data/postmaster.pid
That seems extremely broken. Can you reproduce this state (wrong PID in
postmaster.pid) after restarting the postmaster?
regards, tom lane