Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-05-14T12:50:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
I wrote:
> Uh ... so the lock-file stuff is completely broken on Windows?

Not so much broken as commented out ... on looking at the code, it's
blindingly obvious that we don't even try to create a socket lock file
if not HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS.  Sigh.

There is a related risk even on Unix machines: two postmasters can be
started on the same port number if they have different settings of
unix_socket_directory, and then it's indeterminate which one you will
contact if you connect to the TCP port.  I seem to recall that we
discussed this several years ago, and didn't really find a satisfactory
way of interlocking the TCP port per se.

			regards, tom lane