Re: FATAL: bogus data in lock file "postmaster.pid": ""

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Beattie <mtbeedee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FATAL: bogus data in lock file "postmaster.pid": ""
Date: 2012-08-29 02:28:55
Message-ID: 24583.1346207335@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:25:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The backend side of this looks mostly sane to me (but drop the \n,
>> messages are not supposed to contain those). But the feof test proposed

> Removed. I thought we needed to add \n so that strings >80 would wrap
> properly. How do we handle this?

We don't. Per the message style guidelines, it's the responsibility of
a client frontend to line-wrap such text if it feels the need to. The
backend has no business assuming that 80 characters (or any other
number) is where to wrap.

regards, tom lane

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