| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Peter Nixon <listuser(at)peternixon(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Shared disk storage |
| Date: | 2005-09-07 04:43:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20050907044346.GA5129@wolff.to |
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 00:19:19 -0400,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Well, if you know any vendors who move postmaster.pid out of the PGDATA
> directory, let us know so we can knock some sense into their heads.
> postmaster.pid is specifically a lock on the directory, and moving it
> seriously weakens the strength of the lock.
I thought Fedora did, but there are actually two files, one in /var/run
and another in /var/lib/pgsql/data . I had vaguely remembered some
discussions about there being two files a while back, but looked in the
wrong place for the second one and figured I had misremembered things.
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