On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
These considerations don't apply to ordinary hand launching of the
postmaster, for the primary reason that the chance of a false PID
match
is several orders of magnitude smaller when you're talking about a
manual restart --- the likely postmaster PID now ranges over the whole
PID space instead of being within a few counts of the same thing.
So we
don't need to discourage people from using pg_ctl for ordinary
restarts.
The whole thing is really only a problem for initscript authors (who
all
know about it by now ;-))
Nice summary, Tom. Do the distro packagers know this, though? Do we
have notes for distro packagers somewhere?
Best,
David
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