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Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2002-01-25T01:44:30Z
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Justin Clift writes:

> This provides an interesting lead.  There's at least one linux
> distribution which does this.  Part of the cron'd maintenance scripts
> delete all the files in /tmp, and therefore play havoc....

Deleting a socket file doesn't create havoc, it simply means you can't
connect anymore.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net