Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This seems very complicated. Why not simply delete the lock files as an
> earlier part of the boot process?
Primarily because it's not very reasonable to expect rc.sysinit to know
all the places where Postgres data directories might be hiding. I'd
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This seems very complicated. Why not simply delete the lock files as an
earlier part of the boot process?
Also, I've done a bunch of work on the init script we use here in
production to run multiple backends. It supports the concept of having
multiple v
I've been getting some more flak lately about fixing the RPM-supplied
init scripts to avoid the problem where the postmaster fails to start
because there's a stale lockfile in the data directory. See for
instance https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134090
but it's hardly the first
