Re: Problem starting postmaster at startup

When I run the exact same command as root, it starts up fine.

Patrick Bye
Programmer / Analyst
Westfair Foods Ltd.
pbye(at)westfair(dot)ca
(403) 291-6538

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:56 PM
To: Patrick Bye (WFF)
Cc: 'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem starting postmaster at startup

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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