* Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001125 16:37]:
> "Joel Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> This story does indicate that we need a less fragile interlock against
> starting two postmasters on one database. I have to admit that it
> hadn't occurred to me that you could break the port-number interlock
> so easily as that :-(. But obviously you can, so we need a different
> way of representing the interlock. Hackers, any thoughts?
how about a .pid/.port/.??? file in the /data directory, and a lock on that?
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