Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > My question is that > > while starting postmaster is there an option to specify the location of = > > postmaster.pid file .. > > i was thinking if i can keep the postmaster.pid file in a separate = > > folder ..because that folder rarely gets full. > > You do realize that postmaster.pid only takes 100 or so bytes? If you > are out of space on the database partition, moving the pid file would > *not* help measurably. I think he's thinking the other way around. If the file system does fill up he wants postgres to still be able to start up. -- greg
