Re: how to stop postmaster

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: KeithW(at)narrowpathinc(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to stop postmaster
Date: 2004-10-08 20:14:12
Message-ID: 15584.1097266452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Keith Worthington" <keithw(at)narrowpathinc(dot)com> writes:
> Here is what I did.

> $ postmaster -D /raid02/databases/

> $ pg_ctl stop -m smart
> pg_ctl: cannot find /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
> Is postmaster running?

pg_ctl evidently thinks that PGDATA is /var/lib/pgsql/data, which I
suppose it got from an environment variable you have set; but you
told the postmaster to use PGDATA = /raid02/databases. So you need
pg_ctl stop -D /raid02/databases/ -m whatever

Or change your environment variable.

> I would also like to know how to start the postmaster properly on a permanent
> basis. For instance at boot time.

Usually people do that with an init script. There's a simple one in the
source distribution (look in contrib/start-scripts) but you're probably
better off using the one that comes with the RPM distribution.

regards, tom lane

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