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This seems very complicated. Why not simply delete the lock files as an
earlier part of the boot process?
Also, I've done a bunch of work on the init script we use here in
production to run multiple backends. It supports the concept of having
multiple
Andrew Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This seems very complicated. Why not simply delete the lock files as an
earlier part of the boot process?
Primarily because it's not very reasonable to expect rc.sysinit to know
all the places where Postgres data directories might be hiding. I'd
push
I've been getting some more flak lately about fixing the RPM-supplied
init scripts to avoid the problem where the postmaster fails to start
because there's a stale lockfile in the data directory. See for
instance https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134090
but it's hardly the
