bug

Your name : Sandeep Joshi
Your email address : sjoshi(at)zambeel(dot)com

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : Intel Pentium

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.2.16-3

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.0): PostgreSQL-7.0.3

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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1. If I kill postmaster then if I try to restart then I get errors
saying it is
already running.

pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Try to start postmaster
anyway.
FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Address already in use
Is another postmaster already running on that port?
If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) and retry.
/work/postgres/bin/postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port
pg_ctl: Cannot start postmaster. Is another postmaster is running?

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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pg_ctl start
ps auxww | grep postmaster
kill -9 $pid
pg_ctl start

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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pg_ctl should check whether the process and socket specified does exist
or not.