On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 00:19:19 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, if you know any vendors who move postmaster.pid out of the PGDATA > directory, let us know so we can knock some sense into their heads. > postmaster.pid is specifically a lock on the directory, and moving it > seriously weakens the strength of the lock. I thought Fedora did, but there are actually two files, one in /var/run and another in /var/lib/pgsql/data . I had vaguely remembered some discussions about there being two files a while back, but looked in the wrong place for the second one and figured I had misremembered things. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
