Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ick. Is it possible that the postmaster did get a report, but thought
>> it was normal session termination? If so, how could we distinguish?
> If that were the case then it would not have the dead process still
> listed as a live backend, ISTM, which it does.
The postmaster does not control the content of the pg_stat_activity
view.
regards, tom lane