On 10/21/06, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Ian Harding" <iharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 10/20/06, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Personally I think the TIP that's really needed is "never remove
>> postmaster.pid by hand".
> When the machine crashes, don't you have to remove the pid file by
> hand to get the Postgres to start? I seem to remember having to do
> that....
Given a properly written startup script and a reasonably recent
postmaster, that shouldn't be necessary. In any case, retrying the
startup script is a *far* safer habit to develop than manually removing
the pidfile (and putting an "rm" into the script itself is folly of the
first magnitude).
regards, tom lane
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