"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> While refactoring the patch, I've noticed that this patch allowed
> pg_resetxlog to proceed while the server could potentially be up... is
> this the desired behavior or should we require the lock file to be
> removed first (as it was prior to this patch)?
Definitely bad, very bad. Please put back the lock-checking code.
regards, tom lane