Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:02:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>
>>> If all we want to do is add a check that prevents two servers to start on
>>> the same port, we could do that trivially in a win32 specific way (since
>>> we'll never have unix sockets there). Just create an object in the global
>>> namespace named postgresql.interlock.<portnumber> or such a thing.
>>>
>> Does it go away automatically on postmaster crash?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>
Then I think it's worth adding, and I'd argue that as a low risk safety
measure we should allow it to sneak into 8.3. I'm assuming the code
involved will be quite small.
cheers
andrew
