From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
> The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
> server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
> successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
> postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:
>
> FATAL: lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already
exists
did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?
gnari
