| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Tablespaces |
| Date: | 2004-03-03 04:46:55 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0403031541280.29986@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > Actually, I think that's a pretty good idea :-). I'd solves a bunch of
> > issues in the backend (postmaster start up can recurse through
> > $PGDATA/tablespaces looking for postmaster.pid files) and will also assist
> > admins with complex configurations (perhaps).
>
> Why are you asking about postmaster.pid files. That file goes in the
> top level /data directory, no?
I was trying to be paranoid about users who have multiple postmasters on
the same machine and want to share a table space while both systems are
live. There'd be no mechanism to test for that situation if we didn't have
something like a postmaster.pid file. Is this being a little too paranoid?
Gavin
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