Re: Windows Services and Postgresql 9.1.3

Yes, is a Bug, sometimes in some circumstances pg_ctl go down but postgres
server still running.

You can easily reproduce.

Go to "task manager", kill the process "pg_ctl" (simulate some kind of crash
or something else).
Now go to services management and try to start again. Start command will
through an error because pg_ctl can't start database because is already
started.

Due to this bug I always use the pg_ctl command directly and not the windows
service.

Running pg_ctl command from command prompt show that postgres server is
running, but windows service show stopped and is not possible to start again
from windows service UI

Maybe a resolution of this is that pg_ctl ignore the start call from windows
(just success it) when it is already running.

Regards

-----Mensaje original-----
De: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] En nombre de Craig Ringer
Enviado el: lunes, 17 de septiembre de 2012 12:43 a.m.
Para: Vincent Dautremont
CC: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Asunto: Re: [ADMIN] Windows Services and Postgresql 9.1.3

On 09/12/2012 04:48 AM, Vincent Dautremont wrote:

> For example, after the server had rebooted, I would stop the service
> from services.msc Windows then reports it as stopped but I can still
> see that the database is running, and can use it.

Check in the process monitor (or, better, with Process Explorer from
Sysinternals) to see what user the `postgres.exe` processes are running as.

> When I would start the service again, I would end up with a timeout
> waiting for the service to be started. When in fact the database was
> always running.
>
> Anyone had that bug/problem before ?

Nope. Sounds completely crazy. More info needed, though.

--
Craig Ringer

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