On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Jonathan Lemig wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed on two of my postgres servers, one has "postmaster" for the main > process, and the other has "postgres". My question is - why is this? For > example:
On my centos6 servers: 151814 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 10 21:32 /usr/pgsql-10/bin/postmaster -> postgres Do you have something else ? Is there a symlink for pg_ctl or postmaster or postgres in /s?bin, /usr/s?bin, or /usr/local/s?bin ? Was one started by initscript and one started by something else (manually running pg_ctl or similar) ? Are the initscripts the same? Did one of them start at boot and one restarted since then ? You might get a hint by comparing /proc/909/environ with /proc/4804/environ (the relative pids suggests that 4804 was perhaps re/started significantly after boot). And or proc/pid/comm, exe and stat. Did one of them crash since it was started (or killed by OOM) ? Justin PS, I think the list residents would for the future to ask to keep admin/DBA oriented questions on pgsql-general, and development/bugs on -hackers.
