service start script

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