Re: Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:

> I thought we had established that this issue was caused by the current
> instance pointing at the old installs data directory?

   No, that wasn't the problem.

   If I use 'postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data &' the postmaster starts
correctly and everything runs as intended. If I use '/etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql
start' I get error messages about the postmaster already running and an
invalid .pid.

> That should be quite easy to tweak, really ... my current script (slightly
> modified from the one in contrib/startup-scripts) is attached... You may
> need to change the dirs in the script yet a bit.

   Thank you. I think that for some reason using pg_ctl to start the
postmaster is no longer working here. As I have time, I'll look into why.

Rich

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