Re: What is the life of a postgres back end process?

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 17:30 -0500, Eliot Gable wrote:
> Are postgres back end processes connection specific? In other words,
> can we assume / trust that they will be terminated and cleaned up when
> we close a connection and that they will not live on and be reused by
> other connections?

Yes, one backend per connection. When you close the connection, the
backend process should go away.

Under some circumstances, that might not always happen immediately if
the backend is in the middle of doing some work.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis