Warning: Don't delete those /tmp/.PGSQL.* files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martin Kutschker
Subject Warning: Don't delete those /tmp/.PGSQL.* files
Date
Msg-id 20001127.2826993@blackbox.net
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> rm -f /tmp/.PGSQL.* && postmaster -i >log 2>log &

> Which works great. Except that I *kept* using this for two weeks
> after the view problem (damn that bash up-arrow laziness!), and
> yesterday, used it to restart PostgreSQL except (oops!) it was
> already running.
>
> Results: no database at all.

Shouldn't be the socket in a location like /var/run (on platforms that have a directory like this)? So that doing
somethingcareless like rm /tmp/* doesn't hurt too much. 

Masi

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