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From: Robert Patrick <rp2y@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: postmaster getting confused
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 11:09:03 -0700
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> Hi, I'm using Postgres 4.2 on a PC running Solarisx86 2.4.  I'm
> developing an application using tcl.  My problem is that every time my
> tcl program crashes (which is currently whenever I run it), I have to
> kill the postmaster and restart it.  (Otherwise I get the "cannot write
> block x of ... blind" message.).  This is fine, but to restart
> Postmaster, I usually have to wait five minutes or I get a "bind()
> failed" error.  This means I have to wait five minutes between every
> test run of my application and it's getting painful!  Does anybody have
> any advice?  Running ipcclean does not seem to help.

You can always start the postmaster on a new port each time by either 
resetting PGPORT or using the "-p ####" option to the postmaster command.

Robert


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