Tom Lane wrote:
We can't portably lock the socket file itself, so we make a separate ordinary file for locking purposes.
It looks to me like the fact that the .lock file is created is only documented in src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c , and even there the reason why (what you wrote above) isn't mentioned. Seems like noting this file is created in the unix_socket_directory entry of the docs, and the rationale for why in the source code, would make a useful improvement. Anybody want to write a little documentation patch?
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