Re: postmaster.pid file auto-clean up? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: postmaster.pid file auto-clean up?
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Msg-id 5039AF7B.2090607@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: postmaster.pid file auto-clean up?  (Michael Clark <codingninja@gmail.com>)
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On 08/25/12 9:56 PM, Michael Clark wrote:
> PID 8574 is actually iTunes, not PG, and PG was cleanly brought down
> on it's last run, there are no children processes running.

when postgres is cleanly brought down, the postgresql.pid file is
supposed to be removed.   that file contains the PID that pg_ctl uses.

could you be running a pg_ctl from a different version, in the wrong
directory ?



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