On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Muhammad Hanif Abdul Hamid <hanif.ha...@mimos.my> writes: >> Within this week, I have faced two times "postmaster.pid" went missing in a >> sudden. Nobody deleted it or shutdown the server. > > I'd lay very long odds that your second statement is false. *Something* > removed that file, and it wasn't the postmaster.
Yup, and the postmaster is designed to stop if it finds out that postmaster.pid is removed. See that: commit: 7e2a18a9161fee7e67642863f72b51d77d3e996f author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:15:52 -0400 Perform an immediate shutdown if the postmaster.pid file is removed -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
