Re: postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot

From: Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu>
To: Aaron Glenn <aaron(dot)glenn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postmaster never finishes starting up, silent to boot
Date: 2009-03-18 14:45:46
Message-ID: 20090318144546.GD21981@cns.vt.edu
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:18:46AM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> start run it's course? for a 35GB+ database how long should I wait? is
> there no way to log the status of what the postgres daemon is actually
> doing while I wait? what's the standard course of action for a

use strace or dtrace to connect to the pid. It should give you
a clue.

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