Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Lane Van Ingen <lvaningen(at)esncc(dot)com>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, stellr(at)cns(dot)vt(dot)edu
Subject: Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL
Date: 2006-09-28 16:32:33
Message-ID: 200609281632.k8SGWXb28878@momjian.us
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Lane Van Ingen wrote:
> Forgot about 'pg_ctl status'. That will work fine for my needs.
>
> Ray Stell mentioned it would be helpful to see a description of all the
> things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. I agree. It
> helps to know the logic going on behind the scenes when things break. I had
> a problem in August where PostgreSQL would not come up; I finally traced it
> to broken links in the libraries, but it took a long time to find .... and
> there were no error messages logged to help. Does this kind of information
> exist anywhere?

The information exists only in the source code.

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