Re: [GENERAL] Can't restart Postgres

On 02/14/2017 05:00 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 12:00 PM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
>> Yes that would be the standard approach.  But the Debian package removes
>> pg_ctl from it normal place and wraps it with a perl script in a way
>> that makes it difficult to work with (it doesn’t accept the same
>> arguments):
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql#pg_ctl_replacement
>>
>> @Mangnus, can you give me an example of how I might use pg_lsclusters
>> and pg_ctlcluster?  I’ve tried:
>>
>
> I do not see a sudo below or is it apparent whether you are doing this
> as the postgres user.
>
>> pg_ctlcluster 9.4 main start
>> Error: could not exec   start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -l
>> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.4-main.log -s -o  -c
>> config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf”
>
> Not sure how close Debian 8 is to Ubuntu 16.04(something I use), but
> from your first post they look like they share the same startup scripts.
> So something like:
>
> sudo systemctl restart postgresql@9.4-main.service
                  ^^^^^^^
       Should be  start
>
>
>>
>> -Shawn
>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net
>>> <mailto:magnus@hagander.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com
>>> <mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 02/14/2017 11:43 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>         pangaea:/var/log# systemctl status postgresql
>>>         ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
>>>            Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service;
>>>         enabled)
>>>            Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-02-14 10:48:18 PST;
>>>         50min ago
>>>           Process: 28668 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited,
>>>         status=0/SUCCESS)
>>>          Main PID: 28668 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>>>            CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql.service
>>>
>>>
>>>     What about if use pg_ctl as the postgres user? That will give you
>>>     a better idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't want ot be doing that on a systemd system, but try a
>>> combination of pg_lsclusters and pg_ctlcluster. Might be you need to
>>> shut it down once that way before it realizes it's down,and then start
>>> it back up.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Magnus Hagander
>>>  Me: http://www.hagander.net/
>>>  Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
>>
>
>


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