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From Scott Frankel
Subject urgent: another postmaster
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Msg-id 4712cf7c96181fa1a58dd6ac00a7f400@pacbell.net
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After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL
error.  Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already
exists.

Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch?  Or will
this have nasty side-effects?

Thanks in advance!
Scott


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