Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> >> I wonder if we should write the port number as the 4th line in
> >> postmaster.pid and return in a few major releases and use that.  We
> >> could fall back and use our existing code if there is no 4th line.
> 
> No.  If it goes in, it should go in as the third line.  The shmem key
> data is private to the server --- we do not want external programs
> assuming anything at all about the private part of postmaster.pid.

OK, so you are suggesting having it as a third value on the third line?

        10231
        /u/pgsql/data
          5432001  45481984 port_here
                            ^^^^^^^^^
I like that better because it simplifies the test and limits the
possibility of non-atomic multi-line writes.  For Win32, we would just
have the port number because the line is normally empty.
                      
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