"Ian Harding" <harding.ian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The docs state that postmaster.pid is "A lock file recording the > current postmaster PID and shared memory segment ID (not present after > postmaster shutdown" > I never looked until now, but I see the number 5432001 where the pid > should be, and the real pid is in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock, along with > the path to data. Not sure which PG version you are looking at, but in recent releases the PID is on the first line, the second line is the $PGDATA path, and the third has a couple of values associated with shared memory. regards, tom lane
