On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:02:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > If all we want to do is add a check that prevents two servers to start on
> > the same port, we could do that trivially in a win32 specific way (since
> > we'll never have unix sockets there). Just create an object in the global
> > namespace named postgresql.interlock.<portnumber> or such a thing.
>
> Does it go away automatically on postmaster crash?
Yes.
//Magnus