On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:43:00 am Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > The postmaster.pid is located outside the data directory, but points back > > to the data directory. Not sure where Debian, though at a guess > > somewhere in /var. Any way search for postmaster.pid. > > Really? That seems like an extremely dangerous/stupid/unnecessary hack > on the part of the Debian packagers. What's keeping users from > accidentally starting two postmasters in the same data directory, if > they can put their pidfiles in (different) other places? No, that was a mistake on my part. It is in the $DATA directory. > > (This seems unrelated to Thom's issue, but it's still worrisome.) > > regards, tom lane -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
