Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. > I thought Fedora did, but there are actually two files, one in /var/run > and another in /var/lib/pgsql/data . Right, we put in the "external_pid_file" option to satisfy people who wanted something under /var/run ... but Postgres itself makes no use of that file, we just write it out during postmaster start. The postmaster.pid file, on the other hand, is a critical safety interlock to keep two postmasters from starting in the same data directory. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
