backends

[Jenny -]

when i start the postmaster i have multiple backends running even though i
made sure to kill all the backends lingering from the previous run. is there
a reason for this?
while using gdb does it matter which backend's pid i use?
thanks

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[Doug McNaught]

"Jenny -" <na******@hotmail.com> writes:

when i start the postmaster i have multiple backends running even
though i made sure to kill all the backends lingering from the
previous run. is there a reason for this?
while using gdb does it matter which backend's pid i use?

There will be a backend for each active connection, plus a
'postmaster' process (which handles the initial connection) and two
processes that handle statistics. So figure out which backend
corresponds to the connection you're using and attach to that.

-Doug

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