AW: [HACKERS] F_SETLK is looking worse and worse...

[Zeugswetter Andreas SB]

> BTW, it also seems like a good idea to reorder the postmaster's
> startup operations so that the data-directory lockfile is checked
> before trying to acquire the port lockfile, instead of after.  That
> way, in the common scenario where you're trying to start a second
> postmaster in the same directory + same port, it'd fail cleanly
> even if /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock had disappeared.

Fine, sounds like reordering would eliminate the need for the socket lock 
anyway, no ?

Andreas