"Richard Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just consider this may happens and pg can't recover correctly: > if postgres crashed last time and left a postmaster.pid file, and last > postgres > id is reused by another process which is not postgres now.
Postgres defends itself against that just fine, at least in any reasonably recent release. There are some corner cases where it could have problems, but scripted hacking on the .pid file is just about guaranteed to make things worse not better. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly