[HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: eval '$po_path' '$POSTOPTS' $logopt '' if [ -f $PIDFILE ];then if [ "`sed -n 1p $PIDFILE`" = "$pid" ];then echo "$CMDNAME: cannot start postmaster" 12 echo "Examine the log output." 12 exit 1 fi fi which is

[HACKERS] Re: pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch)

2001-03-18 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: which is clearly not giving the postmaster enough time to remove or rewrite the pidfile. Shouldn't we put a "sleep 1" in there before the "if"? This is probably the best we can do. Actually, the whole thing should only happen if we found a