Re: service start script

Michael,

    Your technique is very similar to what we do to ensure the
postmaster starts every time.  We install ours as an Windows service.

    Myles


Michael Adler wrote:

>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
>
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