Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: >> Still, this seems like it's not as deterministic as it should be. >> Is there any reasonable way to pin it down beyond the PID? Like >> also saving a start time into the postmaster.pid file and checking >> that it maches the start time of the PID found? > > How would you get the latter in a portable fashion? (Do not mention > ps please ... and I don't want to hear about lsof either ...) Unfortunately I don't know enough about the relevant API to begin to answer that. (I barely managed to frame the question....) You wouldn't object to using either of those in a Linux service script, though, would you? -Kevin
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