Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

Hi Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
>
<snip>
> If you're not going to be cooperative, then I don't see how you expect
> us to fix the problem.

Hey, lets not start a war here!

Michael's been using PostgreSQL for a while, but hasn't had a chance to
really get into it. When he makes a mistake like this, it's not because
of evil intentions!

<snip>
> No such file?? Hard to believe that that could happen while the
> postmaster was still running. Unless something else had decided to
> delete the socket file from /tmp. The postmaster certainly would not
> do it.

This provides an interesting lead. There's at least one linux
distribution which does this. Part of the cron'd maintenance scripts
delete all the files in /tmp, and therefore play havoc....

But, I don't remember which distribution, although I don't think it was
RedHat.

???

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

>
> regards, tom lane

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