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Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: jamesh@interpath.com, goran@bildbasen.se, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-28T03:37:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 
> 	A thought.  Why not change the startup routine such that instead
> of creating /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432, create a subdirectory that contains both
> the socket (.socket) and the PID file?  Given time, I could see us adding
> in some stats to the postmaster process, similar to named, where you
> SIGUSR2 the process and it dumps a status file and that too could get
> dumped there.
> 
> 	Just a thought...

Let's see what people report.  With the bug fixed, I never see leftover
/tmp/.s.pgsql files.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us