On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 00:19:19 -0400,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Well, if you know any vendors who move postmaster.pid out of the PGDATA
> directory, let us know so we can knock some sense into their heads.
> postmaster.pid is specifically a lock on the directory, and moving it
> seriously weakens the strength of the lock.
I thought Fedora did, but there are actually two files, one in /var/run
and another in /var/lib/pgsql/data . I had vaguely remembered some
discussions about there being two files a while back, but looked in the
wrong place for the second one and figured I had misremembered things.