Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts

On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> These considerations don't apply to ordinary hand launching of the
> postmaster, for the primary reason that the chance of a false PID  
> match
> is several orders of magnitude smaller when you're talking about a
> manual restart --- the likely postmaster PID now ranges over the whole
> PID space instead of being within a few counts of the same thing.   
> So we
> don't need to discourage people from using pg_ctl for ordinary  
> restarts.
> The whole thing is really only a problem for initscript authors (who  
> all
> know about it by now ;-))

Nice summary, Tom. Do the distro packagers know this, though? Do we  
have notes for distro packagers somewhere?

Best,

David