On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:30 PM Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> wrote: >
> If this file is still opened by the previous server shell (it can happen when the previous server instance has unlinked it's pid file, but it's CMD shell is still running), the next CMD start fails with the aforementioned error message. >
What is the reason for the previous shell still accessing logfile? Is the reason that we don't close it before unlinking the pid file?
We can't close the logfile, as it is opened by CMD, not by the postgres process. (Postmaster is started by the command "CMD.EXE /C postgres ... >logfile".) So it is closed by the CMD shell after the postgres process exits and the postgres can't control this (as a child process).
