Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > At least on Unix I don't believe there is any other solution. You > could try looking at ps output but there's a fundamental race > condition, ie the postmaster could spawn another child just before > you kill it, whereupon the child is reassigned to init and there's > no longer a good way to tell that it came from that postmaster. Couldn't you run `ps auxf` and kill any postgres process which is not functioning as postmaster (those are pretty easy to distinguish) and which isn't the child of such a process? Is there ever a reason to allow such an orphan to run? -Kevin
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