After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already exists.

Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will this have nasty side-effects?

Thanks in advance!
Scott


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