| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us |
| Cc: | pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com, pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: fcntl(SETLK) [was Re: 2nd update on TOAST] |
| Date: | 2000-07-08 14:09:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20000708230923O.t-ishii@sra.co.jp |
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> > > But how do you know if that file still belongs to an active postmaster?
> > > What if it exited before removing the file. Seems we would have to
> > > write the PID into the file, and do a kill() to see if it is running.
>
> I believe we already do this (SetPidFile() in
> utils/init/miscinit.c). Isn't it sufficient (1) to prevent starting a
> new postmaster on the same data dir and (2) to unlink the accidently
> left socket file?
I noticed what I was missing after sending the mail. Sorry for the
confusion. Seems the idea trying to connect a postmaster looks good.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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