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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Sure enough, the lock file is gone
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0101262004220.769-100000@peter.localdomain
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The 'tmpwatch' program on Red Hat will remove the /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
file after the server has run 6 days.  This will be a problem.

We could touch (open) the file once every time the ServerLoop() runs
around.  It's not perfect but it should work in practice.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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