Re: restart error

OR you can use

pg_ctl -D <data-folder> -mf

Thanks,
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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 10/6/06, Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:26, Ray Stell wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:28:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Ray Stell <stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu> writes:
> > > > [postgresql(at)stell ~]$ pg_ctl restart -D /var/pgsql/data
> > > > waiting for postmaster to shut
> > > > down...............................................................
> > > > failed pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down
> > > > [postgresql(at)stell ~]$
> > > >
> > > > yet postmaster is gone:
> > >
> > > Looking at the code, it seems that pg_ctl is waiting for the
> postmaster
> > > lock file (/var/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid) to disappear. Perhaps
> you've
> > > got some kind of file permissions bollix that prevented the postmaster
> > > from removing that file?
> >
> > Turns out I had an open session in another shell I'd
> > forgotten about. I tried again with similar results and
> > as I sent \q on the outstanding session, pm went down instantly:
>
> select * from pg_stat_activity;
>
> is your friend.
>
> Sean
>
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