Tom Lane wrote:
> No, because the external pidfile has zero to do with Postgres' internal
> behavior.
>
+1. So we have two options: have external_pid_file mimics the internal
behavior or deprecates it.
I couldn't find the discussion about it; just the patch [1]. IIRC this
'feature' was proposed to permit another home to postmaster.pid file. Am
I wrong? But seems to duplicate the pid file information.
[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-06/msg00006.php
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