| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org>, Igor Kovalenko <Igor(dot)Kovalenko(at)motorola(dot)com>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: HEADS UP: Win32/OS2/BeOS native ports |
| Date: | 2002-05-06 13:43:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20020506104210.E32524-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Mon, 6 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> >> We could get around this, of course: record the port number in the data
> >> directory lockfile, and test for existence of the old socket
> >> independently of trying to create a new one. But it seems ugly.
>
> > How about a second, data directory based socket simply named something
> > like '.inuse', that is not port dependent?
>
> Hmm ... but how do you use that to tell if there are still backends
> around?
As a backend is started up, connect to that socket ... if socket is open
when trying to start a new frontend, fail as there are currently other
connections attached to it?
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