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Re: FATAL: bogus data in lock file "postmaster.pid": ""

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Beattie <mtbeedee@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-08-29T02:28:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:25:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The backend side of this looks mostly sane to me (but drop the \n,
>> messages are not supposed to contain those).  But the feof test proposed

> Removed.  I thought we needed to add \n so that strings >80 would wrap
> properly.  How do we handle this?

We don't.  Per the message style guidelines, it's the responsibility of
a client frontend to line-wrap such text if it feels the need to.  The
backend has no business assuming that 80 characters (or any other
number) is where to wrap.

			regards, tom lane