On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Maybe somebody's cleanup script was deleting old files in /var/run (which I agree is a really bad idea). -Doug
