Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2015-03-03 15:21:24 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
>> Fwiw this concerns me slightly. I'm sure a lot of people are doing
>> things like "kill -HUP `cat .../postmaster.pid`" or the equivalent.
> postmaster.pid already contains considerably more than just the pid. e.g.
Yeah, that ship sailed long ago. I'm sure anyone who's doing this is
using "head -1" not just "cat", and what I suggest wouldn't break that.
regards, tom lane