Re: postmaster.pid also contains shared memory key

From: Yong Huang <yong321(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: postmaster.pid also contains shared memory key
Date: 2026-11-01 01:56:52
Message-ID: 662111745.874151.1793498212565@mail.yahoo.com
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Hi Michael,
The proposed change is too trivial. I just want to inform the documentation team. Most readers won't care anyway. Thank you!
Yong Huang
On Friday, October 30, 2026 at 07:21:41 PM CDT, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 08:56:24PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> On this page, postmaster.pid is said to contain "shared memory segment ID".
> It would be better to say "shared memory segment key and ID". The second
> last line has two numbers, which are the shared memory segment key (in
> decimal instead of hex) and ID, respectively. This can be verified with
> `ipcs -m'. If you only say "ID", readers may ask, Which one is the ID?

Would you like to write a patch?
--
Michael

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