Michael,
Your technique is very similar to what we do to ensure the
postmaster starts every time. We install ours as an Windows service.
Myles
Michael Adler wrote:
>In order to reliably start up the postmaster, I have been using a script
>to wrap around the postmaster binary and clean up some files that might
>otherwise prevent the postmaster from starting.
>
>The script looks something like this:
>
>#!/usr/bin/bash
>PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
>rm -f $PGDATA/postmaster.pid
>rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
>exec /bin/postmaster
>
>This improved reliability 8 months ago.
>
>Does anyone else use/need something like this? Or do the newer versions
>simply work better without this functionality?
>
>Mike Adler
>
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