Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process?
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Msg-id 20070901080647.GB18426@www.trapp.net
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In response to Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:57:35AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> > Hm. I've come to expect the OS removing all pidfiles early at bootup.
> 
> If there's a script in your system that does that, then adding Postgres
> lockfiles to it makes all kinds of sense.  Our problem as upstream
> software is that this isn't something well-standardized that we could
> plug into ...

Right -- this becomes the distributor's job (when compiling from
sources, the distributor is the sysadmin). Upstream can only recommend.

Regards
- -- tomás
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