[HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file within 5 seconds, and so the logic in commit 0bae3bc9be4a025df089f0a0c2f547fa538a97bc

Re: [HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file within 5 seconds, and so the logic in

Re: [HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 18:59, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that these failures are due to the postmaster not