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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Raj kumar <rajkumar820999@gmail.com>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Killed background writer process
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:51:20 +0200
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On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 14:54 +0530, Raj kumar wrote:
> I've killed background writer process for a testing purpose. I found that after sometime
>  it automatically came up with a new PID without me doing anything from my end. 
> 
> How postgres automatically brings it up? Is there any impact on the Database and connections?

The postmaster process keeps track of its children and restarts any background process
that died.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com






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