On Wed, 5 May 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nope, that theory is all wet --- the backend definitely does
> PS_SET_STATUS("idle") before it waits for a query. Something is
> *really* peculiar here, since your backtrace shows that the backend
> has reached the point of waiting for client input. It is not possible
> to get there without having done PS_SET_STATUS. So why does the process
> still show up as "(postmaster)" in ps? Something is flaky about your
> system's support of ps status setting, I think.
You never altered the task_struct, and so it's still 'postmaster' there.
Note the W... the process is paged out, so the argv is not available!
Taral