Re: server will not start (Debian)

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:13:02PM +0000, Ray O'Donnell wrote:
> On 10/12/2019 16:11, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > On 12/10/19 7:32 AM, stan wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 08:55:02AM -0500, Justin wrote:
> >>> Hi Stan
> >>>
> >>> Check security make sure V12 postgres?? has the correct credentials....
> >>>
> >> OK,
> >>
> >> postgres(at)stantest:/var/run/postgresql$ ls -ld
> >> drwxrwsr-x 2 postgres postgres 40 Dec 10 08:35 .
> >>
> >> Looks correct to me.
> >>
> >> This sundirectory 12-main.pg_stat_tmp keeps getting deleted.
> >>
> >> If I create it by hand as user psotgres, the DB starts up when I run:
> >>
> >> /usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/12/main -c
> >> config_file=/etc/postgresql/12/main/postgresql.conf
> >>
> >> But tring to start it with /etc/ini.d/postgresql start fails
> >>
> >
> > How did you install Postgres 12?
> >
> > Why are you using the file in init.d/ instead of pg_ctlcluster?
>
> Or indeed systemctl? :-)

OK, here is the latets. If I do sudo systemctl start postgresql(at)12-main

the instance starts and works fine.

However, if I reboot the machine, the instance is not started.

Thoughts as to what to check next, appreciated.
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