| From: | "Douglas McNaught" <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, cheriyamoozhiyilcinu(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in, "pgsql-general List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] postmaster.pid not visible |
| Date: | 2008-07-17 19:21:43 |
| Message-ID: | 5ded07e00807171221i8f675b2s58aef0be3a09872@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I was wondering if the postmaster was running in some other data
> directory than the OP thought. I've never heard of anything just
> randomly removing a .pid file from a data directory; and it would
> be extremely dangerous if that did happen, since the pidfile is the
> main interlock against starting two postmasters in the same directory.
Maybe somebody's cleanup script was deleting old files in /var/run
(which I agree is a really bad idea).
-Doug
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