Hello, A few minutes ago, we were surprised to find a second postmaster process running on our database machine as a child of the original postmaster. The child postmaster was around for about a minute then disappeared. This is a Opteron machine running RedHat AS4 with Postgres 8.1.2. Does the postmaster process ever spawn a child postmaster? Is this normal? Thanks, Stuart If you have received this e-mail in error or wish to read our e-mail disclaimer statement and monitoring policy, please refer to http://www.drkw.com/disc/email/ or contact the sender.