"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We could get around this, of course: record the port number in the data >> directory lockfile, and test for existence of the old socket >> independently of trying to create a new one. But it seems ugly.
> How about a second, data directory based socket simply named something > like '.inuse', that is not port dependent? Hmm ... but how do you use that to tell if there are still backends around? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly