Re: Startup Process Initiated by init proc (Unix)

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:24 PM, aaliya zarrin <aaliya(dot)zarrin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I am new to postgres. I am using 9.0.1 of postgres.
> I am using Switch over functionality of Postgres and want to reduce the
> switch over time.
> I have implemented this using Signaling. After signaling the postmaster
> (startup process) once the trigger file is created and making PG to check
> for trigger file
> and do the switch over. PG is receiving the signal and doing the switch over
> as well but two startup processes are running on standby node one initiated
> by postmested and other by init (unix process).
>
> The steps I am following are as follows,
>  - search for trigger file.
> - Complete the recovery- rename recovery.conf file.
> any step is missing I am not sure.

The backtrace of that orphan process would be helpful for the analysis.

Regards,

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