Re: Is there a way to start postgresql v907 as non daemon process

Thank you Laurenz,

Even executing

$ postgres -D /data/directory

Used to start server in deamon mode, the reason was the postgres.conf was
having "silent_mode = on" ( freebsd port used to do this ). Got this
solved by sending "silent_mode=off" command line. With this my problem is
solved.

Trying to train my watch dog to look into postmaster.pid is also good idea
but I do not want to work on that as it is working fine.

Regards
Karthik

On 5/25/12 1:50 PM, "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:

>Karthik wrote:
>> I have observed by default posgresql 8.x onwards starts as daemon
>process. Is there a way to avoid
>> it. I want it to run as normal process. The parent of the server
>process should be the process that
>> starts the server instead of being PID 1 ( init ). Till 7.4.2 ( Which
>was the older version used by us
>> ) was using running in normal mode. The same behavior is necessary as
>we have our watchdog failing to
>> identify that it server is actually running.
>>
>> ( Transcript to help you what I am talking about )
>>
>> c670e04:rkananth 16] /usr/local/bin/postgres --version
>> postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.0.7
>>
>> c670e04:rkananth 11] postgres -D /data/db/postgres
>> c670e04:rkananth 12] ps -A | grep post
>> 65165 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/postgres
>> 65167 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: writer process (postgres)
>> 65168 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: wal writer process (postgres)
>> 65169 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
>(postgres)
>> 65170 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: stats collector process
>(postgres)
>> 65224 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep post
>>
>> c670e04:rkananth 14] ps -p 65165 -o ppid
>> PPID
>> 1
>>
>> c670e04:rkananth 15] ps 1
>> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
>> 1 ?? SLs 0:00.17 /sbin/init --
>>
>> I would be happy to provide further information if required.
>
>If you really want that, start the PostgreSQL server this way:
>
>$ postgres -D /data/directory &
>
>But can't you teach your watchdog to read the postgresql.pid file?
>
>Yours,
>Laurenz Albe