At 17:45 26/03/2008, Melvin Davidson wrote:
>When I start slony, I see two processes which I expect.
>ie;
>postgres 17090     1  0 10:30 pts/0    00:00:00 slon -d1 
>-pslon_fsasset_1.pid fsasset_rep dbname=FSAssetMgmt20080310 
>user=slony host=tsdbdev01.corp.trenstar.net port=5432
>postgres 17091 17090  0 10:30 pts/0    00:00:00 slon -d1 
>-pslon_fsasset_1.pid fsasset_rep dbname=FSAssetMgmt20080310 
>user=slony host=tsdbdev01.corp.trenstar.net port=5432

Those are the slony processes.

>However, what I don't expect, is 5 extra processes as below.
>postgres 17095 25256  0 10:30 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.36(60353) idle
>postgres 17097 25256  0 10:30 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.36(60354) idle
>postgres 17100 25256  0 10:30 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.36(60355) idle
>postgres 17102 25256  0 10:30 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.36(60356) idle
>postgres 17106 25256  0 10:30 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.12(44119) idle
>postgres 17167 25256  0 10:37 ?        00:00:00 postgres: slony 
>FSAssetMgmt20080310 10.2.0.12(60806) idle

Those are the postgres back-ends slony is connect to (some of them 
are local and some remote). Slony can't replicate much without being 
connected to the databases...

>Previously I was using version 1.1.2
>
>Is this something new for version 1.2.13 ?

Nope.

Jacques.