> > postmaster forks() and does not do an exec().
>
> >From postmaster log:
>
> FindExec: found "/usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
>
> ps ax|grep pos
>
> 10665 ? R 0:01 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postgres main.comset.com polithit pol
> 13329 ? S 0:24 /usr/comset/dbase/bin/postmaster -i -D/usr/comset/dbase/dat
>
> These samples push me thinking it was fork/exec... :-(
We re-exec the postmaster so it has an absolute path, which is sometimes
needed for dynamic loading. We also need 5 paramaters to we can do ps
display if forked backends.
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