I've heard from others that OS X's remote desktop equivalent uses an
internal PosgreSQL database in an embedded install that uses the default
PostgreSQL port. That could be the cause of your trouble...
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:24:37PM -0600, Timothy Perrigo wrote:
> We just ran an OS update on an Xserve which runs our PostgreSQL
> server, and now it seems that pg_ctl status doesn't report the
> correct status.
>
> ~ postgres$ pg_ctl status
> pg_ctl: neither postmaster nor postgres running
>
> ~ postgres$ ps auxw | grep postgres
> postgres 491 0.0 -0.1 33156 1160 ?? S 1:09PM
> 0:00.16 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /Volumes/DBRAID/pgsql/data
> postgres 629 0.0 -0.0 31844 216 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.27
> postgres: logger process
> postgres 631 0.0 -0.0 33140 744 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.06
> postgres: writer process
> postgres 632 0.0 -0.0 31860 276 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.02
> postgres: archiver process
> postgres 633 0.0 -0.0 32864 164 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.02
> postgres: stats buffer process
> postgres 634 0.0 -0.0 31888 284 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.03
> postgres: stats collector process
>
>
> We are able to connect to the instance (using psql), but cannot shut
> down or restart the instance using pg_ctl (it just reports that the
> server is not running). We are running PostgreSQL version 8.0.0 and
> Mac OS X 10.3.9. Can anyone tell us what's going on?
>
> Thanks!
> Tim
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