Re: pg_ctlcluster not logging error (memory problem likely)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Webb <amw(at)sanger(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to find out why my cluster won't start. It looks like I'm
>> pushing up max_connections too high although I think my memory and
>> semaphore settings are OK. Thing is, when the cluster fails to start I
>> can't see any errors in pg_log or in /var/log/messages.
>>
>
>
>> When the cluster is up and running it seems to write normally to these
>> locations.
>>
>
>
>> Could pg_ctlcluster be writing somewhere else?
>>
>
> I'm not familar with pg_ctlcluster, but it seems possible that the
> Debian setup is such that messages issued early in startup go somewhere
> else than where messages go once the postmaster is fully up and running.
> In particular, until the postmaster has absorbed the logging settings
> in postgresql.conf, it's *always* going to write to its stderr. I've
> seen startup scripts that send postmaster stderr to /dev/null :-(
> because they suppose that pointing log_destination to syslog or some
> such means that everything of interest will go there.
>
> Advice is to look into the startup script, see where it sends
> postmaster's stderr, and fix that if it's not someplace you can read.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Thanks Tom.

Good advice - I'll check out the pg_ctlcluster script.

I've not looked yet. I'm hoping it's a shell script, not perl :-).

Cheers

Pif

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