| From: | Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts |
| Date: | 2009-08-26 00:44:17 |
| Message-ID: | 4A948561.40908@otg-nc.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
>
>> Can postmaster keep a exclusive lock on its own pid file the entire time it's
>> running?
>>
>
> That's been discussed, but file locking isn't all that portable or
> trustworthy :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
>
What about having a special request via the socket file asking for its
data directory (not over the network)? Or even to have it just update
the timestamp on its pid file...
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Chander Ganesan
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