Re: [HACKERS] pid file for postmaster?
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>
Cc: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1999-11-26T04:02:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
[Charset KOI8-R unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > On 25-Nov-99 Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:33:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> > it. I think the pid file could be placed under $PGDATA. Opinions? > >> ... > >> $PGDATA seems like the right place to put the file, since we can only > >> have one active postmaster at a time in a database directory. > > > > Ehem, I think the correct place would be /var/run. At least that's what the > > filesystem standard says IIRC. > > I agree ... > I think the idea was to put the file in /data, and symlink to /tmp or /var/run. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026