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Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1


  • From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: pidfile location missing after restarting crashed server in 8.1
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:29:53 -0300
  • Message-id: <20051026192953(dot)GC27006(at)surnet(dot)cl>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> > the difference being that in 8.0 we printed the full path of the pid file, in
> > 8.1 we do not.  there could be a good reason for this,
> 
> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).

So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
guess).

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                         Architect, http://www.EnterpriseDB.com
"When the proper man does nothing (wu-wei),
his thought is felt ten thousand miles." (Lao Tse)



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