Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> If all we want to do is add a check that prevents two servers to start on
> the same port, we could do that trivially in a win32 specific way (since
> we'll never have unix sockets there). Just create an object in the global
> namespace named postgresql.interlock.<portnumber> or such a thing.
Does it go away automatically on postmaster crash?
regards, tom lane