"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Does the dev machine run more than one postmaster?
> No.
Hmm, it should be pretty impossible to see this if the machine's just
been rebooted and there are no other postmasters running. If you can
replicate it, could you send along the output of "ipcs -m -a" along
with the contents of the postmaster.pid file? Also, what's the platform
exactly?
regards, tom lane