On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:28:05AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:55:29AM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote:
> > (very detailed, thanks !) but I didn't find a chapter or an other 
> > documentation in which all the "slon" processes created with the 
> > execution of the "slon_start" command are detailed.

So, to answer the original question, the reason you see all those
slon processes is because the replication system is multithreaded. 
On Linux, threads show up in ps as processes.  I don't think you do
have that many open postgres connections.  If I'm reading your ps
output correctly, it's only one per side, which is what I'd figure. 
You can check for sure with netstat, I suppose.

A

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