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From Ross J. Reedstrom
Subject Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
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Msg-id 20010126142434.A24790@rice.edu
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In response to Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com>)
Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:18:13PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > The 'tmpwatch' program on Red Hat will remove the /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
> > file after the server has run 6 days.  This will be a problem.
> > 
> > We could touch (open) the file once every time the ServerLoop() runs
> > around.  It's not perfect but it should work in practice.
> 
> If we have to do it, let's make it an #ifdef __linux__ option.

#ifdef BRAINDAMAGED_TMP_CLEANER ?

ISTR mention of non-linux platforms that do this.

Ross

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