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* have three possible states: UNUSED, ASSIGNED, ACTIVE. An UNUSED slot is
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* available for assignment. An ASSIGNED slot is associated with a postmaster
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* child process, but either the process has not touched shared memory yet,
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* process is actively using shared memory. The slots are assigned to
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* child processes at random, and postmaster.c is responsible for tracking
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* which one goes with which PID.