Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster not starting

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Egon Schmid wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> some great steps forward. Actually postgres is called from postmaster
> and display's the usage() from postgres. I have compared it with older
> version's but can't see anything strange here.
>
> Postgres itself runs if called with a database. BTW how should I stop
> it. I have tried stop, exit, bye, quit, and halt. ^C worked!
>
> marliesle# su - postgres
> marliesle$ postmaster -i 2>&1 &
> [1] 15187
> marliesle$ Usage: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres [options] [dbname]
> -B buffers set number of buffers in buffer pool
> -C supress version info
> -D dir data directory
> -E echo query before execution
> -F turn off fsync
> -P port set port file descriptor
> -Q suppress informational messages
> -S buffers set amount of sort memory available
> -d [1|2|3] set debug level
> -e turn on European date format
> -o file send stdout and stderr to given filename
> -s show stats after each query
> -v version set protocol version being used by frontend
> [1]+ Exit 1 postmaster -i 2>&1

I start mine up with something like:

#!/bin/tcsh
setenv HOMEDIR /home/db
${HOMEDIR}/bin/postmaster -o "-F -o ${HOMEDIR}/errout" \
-i -p 5000 -D${HOMEDIR}/data &

First thing I'd try is adding the -D<dir> switch so that postmaster knows
where your databases are...