Re: Unhelpful initdb error message

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:24:20 am Thom Brown wrote:
>
>
> No, only the ones running as the postgres user.

In my original read, I missed the part you had the Ubuntu/Debian packaged
version running.

>
> Here's the contents of the pid file in /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/
>
> 1199
> /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main
> 1330883367
> 5432
> /var/run/postgresql
> localhost
>   5432001         0
>
> And if I start my development copy, this is the content of its
> postmaster.pid:
>
> 27061
> /home/thom/Development/data
> 1331050950
> 5488
> /tmp
> localhost
>   5488001 191365126

So how are getting the file above? I thought initdb refused to init the directory
and that you could not find pid file it was referring to? Just on a hunch, what is
in /tmp?

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