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From Florent Guillaume
Subject Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone
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Msg-id 20010127183426.A24840@twin.efge.org
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In response to Sure enough, the lock file is gone  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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/tmp is for *temporary* files. Such a lock is not a temporary file, it
should go somewhere in /var, why not in /var/lib/pgsql/data ?


> 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.

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