From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | James Hughes <jamesh(at)interpath(dot)com> |
Cc: | Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se>, maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file |
Date: | 1998-01-28 03:31:14 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980127232747.238J-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, James Hughes wrote:
> On 27 Jan 1998, Goran Thyni wrote:
>
> :
> : On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> :
> : :
> : : When the postmaster crashes, it leaves the /tmp/.s.pgsql file in /tmp.
> : : Is there a way to auto-remove it after a postmaster crash?
> : :
>
> <snip>
>
> : I will look at removing the file on startup when I'm in there.
> :
> : Don't, it gets removed at shutdown except when crashing.
> : Removing at startup opens a whole new can of worms.
> : (You must no postmaster is not already running.)
> :
>
> How about in postmaster.c (arround line 427), when starting up...
>
> 1.) Check for the existence of a pid file.
>
> 2.) If one is there, read the pid and see if a back end is alive.
>
> 3.) If so, warn the user and exit.
>
> 4.) If not, check for and cleanup any leftover files.
>
> 5.) Continue with startup process.
>
> ...wouldn't this work OK?
A thought. Why not change the startup routine such that instead
of creating /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432, create a subdirectory that contains both
the socket (.socket) and the PID file? Given time, I could see us adding
in some stats to the postmaster process, similar to named, where you
SIGUSR2 the process and it dumps a status file and that too could get
dumped there.
Just a thought...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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