Re: auto removing stale pid for postmaster NT service

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:23:49 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

TL> > But if the server crashes without a proper shutdown, the postmaster.pid
TL> > is left behind and the postmaster service fails to start at the next boot.
TL>
TL> It should manage to start anyway --- why exactly does it refuse to
TL> start?

it happens on linux as well: if there's a stale file at boot, it refuses
to start saying that it's already running.

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