BUG #12072: init script creates pid file with wrong owner

From: henrik-postgres(at)hswn(dot)dk
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG #12072: init script creates pid file with wrong owner
Date: 2014-11-26 14:19:24
Message-ID: 20141126141924.15506.75024@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 12072
Logged by: Henrik Storner
Email address: henrik-postgres(at)hswn(dot)dk
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.5
Operating system: CentOS 6.6
Description:

The /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.3 file created a PID file, but fails to make it
owned by user 'postgres'.

This means that using the "pg_ctl" command to restart Postgres fails,
because user postgres cannot update the pid file (if you set
external_pid_file in postgresql.conf so it can find the pid file).

The init script should do a "chown postgres:postgres $pidfile" so the pid
file is owned by the postgres user. This allows pg_ctl commands to work.

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