Re: postmaster.pid disappeared

Tom,
I am not too sure how to determine the unlink call.
Can you provide more information/instructions?

In my case the pg_ctl reload -D /usr/local/pgsql deleted the
postmaster.pid without creating a new one. I am not too sure if this
is normal.

J

On 5/24/05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Junaili Lie <junaili(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I am running postgresql 7.4.8 on solaris 10 (and I compile and
> > installed slony). Everytime I am trying to reload the configuration
> > using pg_ctl reload -D $PGDATA, it deleted the postmaster.pid and
> > didn't create a new one.
>
> That's very strange. The pg_ctl script itself doesn't delete
> the postmaster.pid file under any circumstances (unless maybe
> you are using a locally modified version?), and the postmaster
> shouldn't delete it either unless exiting. Can you determine
> exactly where the unlink call is coming from? strace or local
> equivalent may help.
>
> regards, tom lane
>