On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > Actually, I think that's a pretty good idea :-). I'd solves a bunch of
> > issues in the backend (postmaster start up can recurse through
> > $PGDATA/tablespaces looking for postmaster.pid files) and will also assist
> > admins with complex configurations (perhaps).
>
> Why are you asking about postmaster.pid files. That file goes in the
> top level /data directory, no?
I was trying to be paranoid about users who have multiple postmasters on
the same machine and want to share a table space while both systems are
live. There'd be no mechanism to test for that situation if we didn't have
something like a postmaster.pid file. Is this being a little too paranoid?
Gavin