Re: backend process

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 10:11, Edson Vilhena de Carvalho wrote:
> I'm a new user of postgreSQL
>
> I was loking at the documentation and testing some
> things and I make:
>
> select * from pg_stat_database;
>
> pg_stat_database is writen on the table of page 317,
> one os the outputs is numbackends that is the number
> of
> active backend server processes. I would like to know
> what is a active backend server processes.

In PostgreSQL every connection spawns a new backend that operates on the
database semi-independently, cooperating with the other backends by
means of shared memory.