Re: stopping server does not remove external_pid_file

Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
> Martin Pitt wrote:
>> I just played around with external_pid_file in 8.1.4. I noticed that
>> the file is created and filled properly, but it is not removed again
>> when the server is stopped.
>>
> Looking at the code I see this comment in
> src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c

> /* Should we remove the pid file on postmaster exit? */

> IMHO, yes. It's not useful anymore.

[ shrug... ]  If the postmaster crashes, it would certainly fail to
remove the pidfile.  So I'd argue that your unnamed external script
that is expecting the pidfile to go away needs work: if it's not
verifying the PID given in the file, it's broken.

            regards, tom lane