From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Yaroslav Saburov <y.saburov@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 18.4. Managing Kernel Resources
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:12:51 +0200
Message-ID: <d3b72d56c2dad48c2bbb62eeaea014219cf0d853.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94B4FB0B-E609-4C8D-BEDA-5DE1755933DC@gmail.com>
References: <3007907.1783797573@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<94B4FB0B-E609-4C8D-BEDA-5DE1755933DC@gmail.com>
On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 07:46 +0300, Yaroslav Saburov wrote:
> postgres@sql:~$ cat /pgdatabase/data/postmaster.pid
> 58
> /pgdatabase/data
> 1783830699
> 5432
> /var/run/postgresql
> localhost
> 24381256 0
> ready
> postgres@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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