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