Tom,
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:57:29AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> writes:
> > 2. A second postmaster will exit as appropriate but will not display the
> > above error message. Instead it displays the following:
>
> > $ postmaster
> > Lock file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" already exists.
> > Is another postmaster (pid 385) running in "/usr/local/pgsql/data"?
>
> That does not look like a bug;
My point was that the error message generated by the second postmaster
is *different* that the one generated for the same test case on a real
UNIX (i.e., Linux) platform.
Jason
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