On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:36:41PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This is exactly what you should NOT do.
>
> A start script that thinks it is smarter than the postmaster is almost
> certainly wrong. It is certainly dangerous, too, because auto-deleting
> that pidfile destroys the interlock against hav
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:23:16PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've experienced several times that PG has died somehow and the
> postmaster.pid
> file still exists 'cause PG hasn't had the ability to delete it upon proper
> shutdown. Upon start-up, after such an incidence,
