On Mon, 6 May 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > "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?
As a backend is started up, connect to that socket ... if socket is open when trying to start a new frontend, fail as there are currently other connections attached to it? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
