From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Patrick Bye (WFF)" <PBYE(at)Westfair(dot)CA> |
Cc: | "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Problem starting postmaster at startup |
Date: | 2003-01-29 23:55:59 |
Message-ID: | 1043884559.1756.162.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 23:23, Patrick Bye (WFF) wrote:
...
> su -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data' postgres
...
> This has been working fine for 4 weeks. Now, all I get at startup is the
> message "postmaster successfully started" but I cannot find postmaster
> running anywhere in the system. I know pg_ctl is executing because of the
> message but postmaster is not logging anything at all.
Unfortunately, that message is meaningless. The pg_ctl script runs the
postmaster in the background, and will not notice if it fails, as it
obviously has.
Try starting the postmaster directly and see what happens.
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