| From: | tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process? |
| Date: | 2007-09-01 04:49:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20070901044954.GA17405@www.trapp.net |
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
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> > The real question there is how come the postmaster died without removing
> > the pidfile. It's not that easy to crash the postmaster ...
>
> Well, that's not due to a bug in PostgreSQL. We're using a buggy LDAP
> implementation (not my call) which can crash things. The machine totally
> locked up after logging distress messages from that daemon, and they cycled
> power to get out of it.
Hm. I've come to expect the OS removing all pidfiles early at bootup. A
pidfile from the "last incarnation" doesn't make much sense anyway,
right?
Regards
- -- tomás
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