Re: Requesting external_pid_file with postgres -C when not initialized lead to coredump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> alain radix wrote:
>> So, here is my first patch for PostgreSQL.
>
> Looking forward to further ones,

A comment on this patch: this is an incorrect approach anyway.
PostmasterMain relies on this value being NULL to decide if this PID
file should be written or not, so this patch applied as-is would
result in a message outputted to stderr if the logic is not changed
there.
-- 
Michael