Tom Lane wrote:
> Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
>
>> Can postmaster keep a exclusive lock on its own pid file the entire time it's
>> running?
>>
>
> That's been discussed, but file locking isn't all that portable or
> trustworthy :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
>
What about having a special request via the socket file asking for its
data directory (not over the network)? Or even to have it just update
the timestamp on its pid file...
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