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    Adjust postmaster to recognize that a lockfile containing its parent's PID · c8196c87
    Tom Lane authored 
    must be stale.  Tweak example startup scripts to not use pg_ctl but launch
the postmaster directly, thereby ensuring that only the postmaster's direct
parent shell will be a postgres-owned process.  In combination these should
fix the longstanding problem of the postmaster sometimes refusing to start
during reboot because it thinks the old lockfile is not stale.
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    Adjust postmaster to recognize that a lockfile containing its parent's PID
    Tom Lane authored 
    must be stale.  Tweak example startup scripts to not use pg_ctl but launch
the postmaster directly, thereby ensuring that only the postmaster's direct
parent shell will be a postgres-owned process.  In combination these should
fix the longstanding problem of the postmaster sometimes refusing to start
during reboot because it thinks the old lockfile is not stale.