Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> AFAIR, with the 7.1 release the postmaster automatically recovers from
> this situation. Can someone come up with a better description of what
> ipcclean is useful for, if there still is such a thing?
I believe that ipcclean is no longer needed for preparing to start a new
postmaster. It might possibly be useful if you wanted to clean up after
a dead postmaster that you did *not* intend to restart.
However, given the lack of portability and lack of robustness of the
script (including inability to deal with multiple-postmaster
situations), I think I'd vote for removing it altogether.
regards, tom lane