"Ian Harding" <iharding@destinydata.com> writes: > On 10/20/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Personally I think the TIP that's really needed is "never remove >> postmaster.pid by hand".
> When the machine crashes, don't you have to remove the pid file by > hand to get the Postgres to start? I seem to remember having to do > that....
Given a properly written startup script and a reasonably recent postmaster, that shouldn't be necessary. In any case, retrying the startup script is a *far* safer habit to develop than manually removing the pidfile (and putting an "rm" into the script itself is folly of the first magnitude).
regards, tom lane
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