Re: [HACKERS] postmaster.pid

> Do you just test to see if the file exists?  If so, I would suggest
> actually reading the pid and checking to see if the process is still
> running.  That way we don't have to 'rm postmaster.pid' if the postmaster
> dies abnormally (Netscape for Linux has this problem).

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already modified postmaster.c so
that it could remove postmaster.pid if the file is bogus. Will commit
soon.
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Tatsuo Ishii