"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> What is the difference between the postmaster binary and the postgres
> binary? Does the postmaster act as nothing more than a multiplexor for
> postgres processes or something?
None, and yup. There is some stuff about this at
http://developer.postgresql.org/osdn.php (I recommend the "tour"
slides ;-)). I thought we had some graphics about this in the standard
documentation, too, but am not finding it right now.
regards, tom lane