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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