Package: postgresql Version: 7.4.7-2 Severity: important Maybe this is not one bug, but two:
1. For whatever reason, the postmaster.pid file is sometimes empty. I did not yet find out, under which conditions this happens, but it happened more than one time. 2. Worse, if the file is empty, the stop and/or restart of postgresql fails: Stopping PostgreSQL database server: postmaster/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl: line 321: [: : integer expression expected kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec] (the script hangs until ^C is pressed) You can easily reprocuce this behaviour by running postgresql, echo > /var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid and /etc/init.d/postgresql stop The stop/restart should definitively be robust against an empty postmaster.pid file (and this file should not be empty anyway, but it happens now and then). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
