Tom Lane writes:
> I believe that ipcclean is no longer needed for preparing to start a new
> postmaster. It might possibly be useful if you wanted to clean up after
> a dead postmaster that you did *not* intend to restart.
>
> However, given the lack of portability and lack of robustness of the
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> AFAIR, with the 7.1 release the postmaster automatically recovers from
> this situation. Can someone come up with a better description of what
> ipcclean is useful for, if there still is such a thing?
I believe that ipcclean is no longer needed for
ipcclean(1) currently says:
| ipcclean cleans up shared memory and semaphore space from aborted backends
| by deleting all instances owned by user postgres. Only the DBA should
| execute this program as it can cause bizarre behavior (i.e., crashes) if
| run during multi-user execution. This progr
