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Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Michael Devogelaere <michael@digibel.be>, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-25T01:17:19Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > We added some PostgreSQL code to touch the socket file during
> > checkpoints, and I thought that was in 7.1.
> 
> You're thinking about the socket lock file, which is a plain file.
> 
> The problem with socket files is that the file mod time usually doesn't
> change even when it's in active use.  That's why things like
> /tmp-scrubbers need to make an exception for socket files.

Hard to imagine how X11 runs in such a case.  Does it not go into
/tmp/.X11_unix?

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