"Kinsey, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a little more detail as to how this socket file was getting deleted: > On the system I'm using, if you attempt to start postmaster when an instance > of it is already running, the socket file gets deleted. It was discovered > that upon bootup of the system, the postgres startup script was being > executed twice in the /sbin/rc3.d directory, and this was causing the socket > file to get deleted. It wasn't a cron job.
The second postmaster launch was doing that? It should not, because it should detect that there's already a postmaster before it starts messing with the socket file. Perhaps there's a gratuitous "rm" of the socket file or the socket lockfile in the startup script? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster