From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:05:22 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Report postmaster.pid file as empty if it is empty, rather than
X-Git-Tag: REL9_3_BETA1~998
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Report postpid file as empty if it is empty, rather than
reporting in contains invalid data.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
index 775d71f56c5..9a0f92c2682 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
@@ -766,6 +766,14 @@ CreateLockFile(const char *filename, bool amPostmaster,
 							filename)));
 		close(fd);
 
+		if (len == 0)
+		{
+			ereport(FATAL,
+					(errcode(ERRCODE_LOCK_FILE_EXISTS),
+					 errmsg("lock file \"%s\" is empty", filename),
+					 errhint("Either another server is starting, or the lock file is the remnant of a previous server startup crash.")));
+		}
+
 		buffer[len] = '\0';
 		encoded_pid = atoi(buffer);
 
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
index af8d8b28e69..81ba39ec409 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
@@ -292,8 +292,13 @@ get_pgpid(void)
 	}
 	if (fscanf(pidf, "%ld", &pid) != 1)
 	{
-		write_stderr(_("%s: invalid data in PID file \"%s\"\n"),
-					 progname, pid_file);
+		/* Is the file empty? */
+		if (ftell(pidf) == 0 && feof(pidf))
+			write_stderr(_("%s: the PID file \"%s\" is empty\n"),
+						 progname, pid_file);
+		else
+			write_stderr(_("%s: invalid data in PID file \"%s\"\n"),
+						 progname, pid_file);
 		exit(1);
 	}
 	fclose(pidf);