On 6 March 2012 16:04, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The postmaster.pid is located outside the data directory, but points back to the
> data directory. Not sure where Debian, though at a guess somewhere in /var.
> Any way search for postmaster.pid.
I'm not sure, because if I use a new data directory, initdb it and
start the service, the postmaster.pid appears in it, and not as a
symbolic link.
I did a search for postmaster.pid in the whole of /var and it only
shows up "/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/postmaster.pid"
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Thom