Re: a few questions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: a few questions
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Msg-id 20051229103035.GC17809@svana.org
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In response to a few questions  ("surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@iiitb.ac.in>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:40:11PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> pidof of doesnt work ?

Given the number of processes is going to be at least 3+number of
connections, how is pidof going to know which one you mean? Answer: it
doesn't, so you end up killing a random one.

> which startup script are u reffering to?

In recent releases they're under contrib/start-scripts but they've been
there for a while. Since you didn't say which version, I can't help you
more than that.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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