On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:58, Scott Frankel wrote:
> After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL
> error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already
> exists.
>
> Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will
> this have nasty
Just check first to make sure there really are no postmasters running
and you should be safe
ps aex|grep post
and if there's no output, delete the pid file. If there really are
other postmasters or postgreses running, then kill them first.