postmaster.pid in version 7.4

Dario Marini wrote:

My postmaster.pid is something like:

23479
/export/home1/staff/marini/pgsql/data
5432001 11703

I don't know if there is something wrong with my installation (I run
postgresql on Ultra-2 station with Solaris 6), for sure I cannot stop
postgrsql server using:

kill `cat /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`

I've fixed the installation instructions as you suggest. At one point
this worked, but later we added more information to the pid file.
Thanks for the report.