postmaster.pid
The docs state that postmaster.pid is "A lock file recording the
current postmaster PID and shared memory segment ID (not present after
postmaster shutdown"
I never looked until now, but I see the number 5432001 where the pid
should be, and the real pid is in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock, along with
the path to data.
Is the documentation incomplete/misleading or am I doing something odd?
- Ian
"Ian Harding" <harding.ian@gmail.com> writes:
The docs state that postmaster.pid is "A lock file recording the
current postmaster PID and shared memory segment ID (not present after
postmaster shutdown"
I never looked until now, but I see the number 5432001 where the pid
should be, and the real pid is in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock, along with
the path to data.
Not sure which PG version you are looking at, but in recent releases the
PID is on the first line, the second line is the $PGDATA path, and the
third has a couple of values associated with shared memory.
regards, tom lane