Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process?
Date: 2007-09-01 04:57:35
Message-ID: 8121.1188622655@sss.pgh.pa.us
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tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de writes:
> Hm. I've come to expect the OS removing all pidfiles early at bootup.

If there's a script in your system that does that, then adding Postgres
lockfiles to it makes all kinds of sense. Our problem as upstream
software is that this isn't something well-standardized that we could
plug into ...

regards, tom lane

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