Re: stale portmaster processes

Thomas T. Thai writes:

> i've noticed that when using php scripts or the "c" cgi search.cgi from
> mnogosearch, if i access either script from the web browser and stop it
> with ESC in the middle of it trying to access the pgsql db, the associated
> postmaster process hangs around forever and won't disappear:
>
> 19276 p1  I    0:00.11 postmaster: web mnwork [local] idle (postgres)
> 19920 p1  I    0:00.08 postmaster: web mnwork [local] idle (postgres)
> 19958 p1  I    0:00.10 postmaster: web mnwork [local] idle (postgres)

These look like backend processes left around as part of the persistent
connection thing that PHP does.  On the next connection they will get
reused, or so is the theory.

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