Re: 18.4. Managing Kernel Resources

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Yaroslav Saburov <y(dot)saburov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 18.4. Managing Kernel Resources
Date: 2026-07-12 07:12:51
Message-ID: d3b72d56c2dad48c2bbb62eeaea014219cf0d853.camel@cybertec.at
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On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 07:46 +0300, Yaroslav Saburov wrote:
> postgres(at)sql:~$ cat /pgdatabase/data/postmaster.pid 
> 58
> /pgdatabase/data
> 1783830699
> 5432
> /var/run/postgresql
> localhost
>  24381256         0
> ready   
> postgres(at)sql:~$ ps 58
>     PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>      58 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/postgres -D /pgdatabase/data -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/18/main/postgresql.conf
>
> Show me process postmaster?

You found it!

"Postmaster" is not the name of the executable or the process title (any more),
it is just what we call that process. It is a technical term.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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