Re: postgres memory management

Hi Alexander,

I've noticed that the PG 7.03 ipcclean script uses "ps x | grep -s
'postmaster'" to determine if a postmaster daemon is still running,
which at least for Mandrake Linux 7.2 doesn't work as expected. With
this version of linux, the ps & grep combination will find itself and
then ipcclean will complain about an existing postmaster.

I found the solution to this being to edit the ipcclean script and
change the "ps x | grep -s 'postmaster'" part to "ps -e | grep -s
'postmaster'". This then works correctly with Mandrake 7.2.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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> Oddly, when I try to run ipcclean a second time, it says: ipcclean: You
> still have a postmaster running. Which is not the case as ps -e proves.
>
> Alexander Jerusalem
> ajeru(at)gmx(dot)net
> vknn