Re: FATAL: bogus data in lock file "postmaster.pid": ""

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:24:26AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar ago 28 22:21:27 -0400 2012:
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:25:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > Updated patch attached which just reports the file as empty.  I assume
> > > > we don't want the extra text output for pg_ctl like we do for the
> > > > backend.
> > >
> > > The backend side of this looks mostly sane to me (but drop the \n,
> > > messages are not supposed to contain those).  But the feof test proposed
> >
> > Removed.
>
> It's a pretty strange line wrap you got in this version of the patch.
> Normally we just let the string run past the 78 char limit, without
> cutting it in any way.  And moving the start of the string to the line
> following "errhint(" looks very odd to me.

OK, updated patch attached.

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