Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> Any chance the PID filename could be hard linked to the format:
> postmaster-%d.pid where %d is the start time of the postmaster?
And then how does any program except the postmaster know which .pid
file is the active one? There's also the little problem that this
defeats the use of the .pid file as a data-directory lock file.
regards, tom lane