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commit efae4653c98fd201a8a723bceabf182a1005ac0f
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue May 22 02:10:40 2012 +0000
First released in: 9.2.0
Update woefully-obsolete comment.
The accurate info about what's in a lock file has been in miscadmin.h
for some time, so let's just make this comment point there instead of
maintaining a duplicative copy.
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c | 16 ++++------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
index 51809b7a88a..0f734260c16 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
@@ -629,18 +629,10 @@ GetUserNameFromId(Oid roleid)
*
* These routines are used to create both a data-directory lockfile
* ($DATADIR/postmaster.pid) and a Unix-socket-file lockfile ($SOCKFILE.lock).
- * Both kinds of files contain the same info:
- *
- * Owning process' PID
- * Data directory path
- *
- * By convention, the owning process' PID is negated if it is a standalone
- * backend rather than a postmaster. This is just for informational purposes.
- * The path is also just for informational purposes (so that a socket lockfile
- * can be more easily traced to the associated postmaster).
- *
- * A data-directory lockfile can optionally contain a third line, containing
- * the key and ID for the shared memory block used by this postmaster.
+ * Both kinds of files contain the same info initially, although we can add
+ * more information to a data-directory lockfile after it's created, using
+ * AddToDataDirLockFile(). See miscadmin.h for documentation of the contents
+ * of these lockfiles.
*
* On successful lockfile creation, a proc_exit callback to remove the
* lockfile is automatically created.
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