| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Herr, Christian" <cherr(at)vt(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postmaster.pid |
| Date: | 2014-04-11 13:52:20 |
| Message-ID: | 26782.1397224340@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Herr, Christian" <cherr(at)vt(dot)edu> writes:
> We have a config-only setup (postgresql.conf exists not in $PGDATA). In postgresql.conf, external_pid_file is set and creates postmaster.pid in $PGDATA. Issuing "pg_ctl start", the contents of postmaster.pid only ever contains one line, the process ID. It never contains any other lines, but according to specs, it's supposed to have 7 lines. Any idea why postmaster.pid is only containing a single line, the process ID and no other lines?
Only the "real" pid file (the one in the data directory) has extra lines.
A file created for external_pid_file contains the PID and nothing more.
If you specified external_pid_file as pointing to the data directory,
then you broke things badly. Do not do that.
regards, tom lane
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