Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster not starting

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Egon Schmid wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> some great steps forward. Actually postgres is called from postmaster
> and display's the usage() from postgres. I have compared it with older
> version's but can't see anything strange here.
>
> Postgres itself runs if called with a database. BTW how should I stop
> it. I have tried stop, exit, bye, quit, and halt.  ^C worked!
>
> marliesle# su - postgres
> marliesle$ postmaster -i 2>&1 &
> [1] 15187
> marliesle$ Usage: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres [options] [dbname]
>     -B buffers    set number of buffers in buffer pool
>     -C         supress version info
>     -D dir        data directory
>     -E         echo query before execution
>     -F         turn off fsync
>     -P port        set port file descriptor
>     -Q         suppress informational messages
>     -S buffers    set amount of sort memory available
>     -d [1|2|3]    set debug level
>     -e         turn on European date format
>     -o file        send stdout and stderr to given filename
>     -s         show stats after each query
>     -v version    set protocol version being used by frontend
> [1]+  Exit 1                  postmaster -i 2>&1

I start mine up with something like:

#!/bin/tcsh
setenv HOMEDIR /home/db
${HOMEDIR}/bin/postmaster -o "-F -o ${HOMEDIR}/errout" \
    -i -p 5000 -D${HOMEDIR}/data &

First thing I'd try is adding the -D<dir> switch so that postmaster knows
where your databases are...