Re: pg_ctl problem (was Re: BeOS Patch) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane writes:

>     eval '$po_path' '$POSTOPTS' $logopt '&'
>
>     if [ -f $PIDFILE ];then
>     if [ "`sed -n 1p $PIDFILE`" = "$pid" ];then
>         echo "$CMDNAME: cannot start postmaster" 1>&2
>         echo "Examine the log output." 1>&2
>         exit 1
>         fi
>     fi
>
> which is clearly not giving the postmaster enough time to remove or
> rewrite the pidfile.  Shouldn't we put a "sleep 1" in there before
> the "if"?

This is probably the best we can do.

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