Re: Lockfile restart failure is still there :-(

Tom Lane wrote:

>But I evidently didn't
>read the code quite carefully enough: as CreateLockFile() is written,
>it considers an EPERM error from kill() to be reason to treat the
>lockfile as valid.
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I thought that was part of what you were going to address. There can
hardly be an objection now to fixing it.

>I am strongly tempted to add a direct check in checkDataDir() that the
>data directory actually does belong to our own uid, just for paranoia's
>sake.  Someone might decide that they could relax the permission check
>("hey, why not let the dbadmin group have write permission on $PGDATA")
>without realizing they'd be weakening the startup safety interlock.
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I assume that ACLs can't be used to get around the restrictions ...

cheers

andrew