Decibel! <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Moving to -general. -hackers is for discussion about PG development. > On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:10 AM, cinu wrote: >> Can anyone throw light on why the postmaster.pid was not visible, > My guess would be that something went in and removed the .pid file. I was wondering if the postmaster was running in some other data directory than the OP thought. I've never heard of anything just randomly removing a .pid file from a data directory; and it would be extremely dangerous if that did happen, since the pidfile is the main interlock against starting two postmasters in the same directory. regards, tom lane
