Tom Lane wrote:
Aidan Van Dyk <ai...@highrise.ca> writes:
Can postmaster keep a exclusive lock on its own pid file the entire time it's
running?
That's been discussed, but file locking isn't all that portable or
trustworthy :-(
regards, tom lane
What about having a special request via the socket file asking for its
data directory (not over the network)? Or even to have it just update
the timestamp on its pid file...
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