Re: Problems with starting Postgres

From: Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Uro Gruber <uros(at)sir-mag(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problems with starting Postgres
Date: 2000-12-11 12:20:11
Message-ID: 3A34C67B.53F3CD55@albourne.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> A plain kill (SIGTERM) should remove the socket file on its way out.
> The only thing that wouldn't is kill -9 ... if you're doing it that
> way, don't.

The problem is an unexpected crash/reboot of the machine (which
shouldn't happen, but...) that leaves socket files in /tmp and requires
manual tweaking after the machine is up again. Maybe it's our
installation, but we need a more reliable pg_ctl

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