Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

From: Florent Guillaume <efgeor(at)noos(dot)fr>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
Date: 2001-01-27 17:34:26
Message-ID: 20010127183426.A24840@twin.efge.org
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/tmp is for *temporary* files. Such a lock is not a temporary file, it
should go somewhere in /var, why not in /var/lib/pgsql/data ?

> The 'tmpwatch' program on Red Hat will remove the /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> file after the server has run 6 days. This will be a problem.
>
> We could touch (open) the file once every time the ServerLoop() runs
> around. It's not perfect but it should work in practice.

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