On Thursday 13 February 2003 21:49, Tom Lane wrote: > Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > need is verified, I could do this by moving the pid file from > > $PGDATA/postmaster.pid to /var/run/postgresql/5432.pid and similarly for > > other ports. This would also have the benefit of being more FHS > > compliant What do people think about that?
> No chance at all. Breaking the connection between the data directory > and the postmaster.pid file means we don't have an interlock against > starting two postmasters in the same data directory. It's not a pid file in the /var/run sense, really. It's an interlock for PGDATA. So it might be argued that postmaster.pid is misnamed. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
