Re: Attempt to stop dead instance can stop a random process?

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:

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> > The real question there is how come the postmaster died without removing
> > the pidfile.  It's not that easy to crash the postmaster ...
>  
> Well, that's not due to a bug in PostgreSQL.  We're using a buggy LDAP
> implementation (not my call) which can crash things.  The machine totally
> locked up after logging distress messages from that daemon, and they cycled
> power to get out of it.

Hm. I've come to expect the OS removing all pidfiles early at bootup. A
pidfile from the "last incarnation" doesn't make much sense anyway,
right?

Regards
- -- tomás
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