Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? FWIW, the discussion about that was here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-11/msg01306.php and the subsequent commit was 2000-11-29 15:59 tgl * configure, configure.in, src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c, src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c, src/backend/tcop/postgres.c, src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c, src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c, src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh, src/include/config.h.in, src/include/miscadmin.h: Get rid of not-very-portable fcntl(F_SETLK) mechanism for locking the Unix socket file, in favor of having an ordinary lockfile beside the socket file. Clean up a few robustness problems in the lockfile code. If postmaster is going to reject a connection request based on database state, it will now tell you so before authentication exchange not after. (Of course, a failure after is still possible if conditions change meanwhile, but this makes life easier for a yet-to-be-written pg_ping utility.) (The pgsql-committers messages were pretty useless back then, so I won't point you to that archive.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
