"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>> We could get around this, of course: record the port number in the data
>> directory lockfile, and test for existence of the old socket
>> independently of trying to create a new one. But it seems ugly.
> How about a second, data directory based socket simply named something
> like '.inuse', that is not port dependent?
Hmm ... but how do you use that to tell if there are still backends
around?
regards, tom lane