Re: We should Axe /contrib/start-scripts

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: 
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> Still, this seems like it's not as deterministic as it should be. 
>> Is there any reasonable way to pin it down beyond the PID?  Like
>> also saving a start time into the postmaster.pid file and checking
>> that it maches the start time of the PID found?
> 
> How would you get the latter in a portable fashion?  (Do not mention
> ps please ... and I don't want to hear about lsof either ...)
Unfortunately I don't know enough about the relevant API to begin to
answer that.  (I barely managed to frame the question....)
You wouldn't object to using either of those in a Linux service
script, though, would you?
-Kevin