-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
[...] > > The real question there is how come the postmaster died without removing > > the pidfile. It's not that easy to crash the postmaster ... > > Well, that's not due to a bug in PostgreSQL. We're using a buggy LDAP > implementation (not my call) which can crash things. The machine totally > locked up after logging distress messages from that daemon, and they cycled > power to get out of it. Hm. I've come to expect the OS removing all pidfiles early at bootup. A pidfile from the "last incarnation" doesn't make much sense anyway, right? Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2O9yBcgs9XrR2kYRAjB1AJ99MwT7M4LCDCTm/lnoCQE+xxVq5wCdEfDN j+/jC3DI3qr/W1OEJGDAg88= =pCGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly