Tom Lane wrote:
> A plain kill (SIGTERM) should remove the socket file on its way out.
> The only thing that wouldn't is kill -9 ... if you're doing it that
> way, don't.
The problem is an unexpected crash/reboot of the machine (which
shouldn't happen, but...) that leaves socket files in /tmp and requires
manual tweaking after the machine is up again. Maybe it's our
installation, but we need a more reliable pg_ctl
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