RH 6.1, PostgreSQL 7.0.2, ipcclean madness

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I have finally needed to use ipcclean. I recently built HaruspeX 4.0,
an application for managing pictures which uses Postgres, and while
asking to delete a table, it hung. I had the app in the debugger, and
I found it was hung on the database call itself. So, after waiting a
couple of hours, I decided to bounce postgres by running the init
script. HaruspeX dutifully reported that the backend had closed the
connection. However, postgres did not come back up. I found two
processes running as postgres:

532 root> ps -efw | grep post
postgres 26171 1 0 00:02 ? 00:01:04 /usr/bin/postgres localhost roland family idle
postgres 26188 1 0 00:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postgres localhost roland family idle
root 6681 20510 0 21:20 pts/2 00:00:00 grep post

When I attempted to run pgctl directly, it reported a problem with
semaphore space, so I tried to run ipcclean. It kept reporting I had
a postmaster running when I couldn't find it. Finally, I had a look
at the script. Oops, it has this line:

if ps x | grep -s 'postmaster' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then

But consider:

557 root> ps x | grep -s 'postmaster'
7084 pts/2 S 0:00 grep -s postmaster

So, it keeps seeing its test instead of the real postmaster. How about

ps x | grep -s postmaster | grep -v grep

instead?

roland
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