Re: pg_ctl with unix domain socket?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Josef Wolf <jw(at)raven(dot)inka(dot)de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have created a fresh cluster with
>
> initdb -D /some/path/pgtest
>
> I can start postgres to run on unix domain socket serving this cluster
> with:
>
> postgres -D /some/path/pgtest -h '' -k /some/path/pgtest
>
> But I'd like to use pg_ctl instead, in order to have clean control:
>
> PGPORT=/some/path/pgtest pg_ctl -D/some/path/pgtest -l postgreslog start
>
> PGPORT should be the port number on which the Postgresql server is
running(5432 is default), and PGDATA=some/path/pgtest .

To start the postgresql server using pg_ctl you can use,

pg_ctl -D PGDATA start

to stop ,

pg_ctl -D PGDATA stop

....
Abbas.

> Any hints how to use pg_ctl to start/stop postgresql on a unix domain
> socket?
>
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