urgent: another postmaster

From: Scott Frankel <leknarf(at)pacbell(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: urgent: another postmaster
Date: 2005-05-23 19:58:36
Message-ID: 4712cf7c96181fa1a58dd6ac00a7f400@pacbell.net
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After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL
error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already
exists.

Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will
this have nasty side-effects?

Thanks in advance!
Scott

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