> rm -f /tmp/.PGSQL.* && postmaster -i >log 2>log &
> Which works great. Except that I *kept* using this for two weeks
> after the view problem (damn that bash up-arrow laziness!), and
> yesterday, used it to restart PostgreSQL except (oops!) it was
> already running.
>
> Results: no database at all.
Shouldn't be the socket in a location like /var/run (on platforms that have a directory like this)? So that doing something careless like rm /tmp/* doesn't hurt too much.
Masi