Re: Why can't I do this (setup question)

Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
> Quoting Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us):
> > Paul Tomblin <ptomblin(at)xcski(dot)com> writes:
> > > I've got PostgreSQL 7.1 installed from rpms on a RedHat 6.2 system. I
> > > want the data directory on a separate partition, so I shut down, tar the
> > > whole directory into the other directory, mount it, and when I start up
> > > postgresSQL it says it's up, but I can't connect to any databases using
> > > psql.
> > > psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> > > Is the postmaster running locally
> > > and accepting connections on Unix socket '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'?
> > > There is a postmaster running, but no socket in /tmp/
> >
> > Odd. Seems unlikely that that has anything to do with your having moved
> > the data directory. Any interesting messages in the postmaster log?
> > Can you connect via TCP?
>
> Is there a postmaster log other than what's in /var/log/messages?
> Because there is nothing useful in there other than a message that it
> started successfully.

As for your original question, which I missed, I assume you set '-i' in
postmaster.opts.default.

As for the log issue, you can also set log level in
postmaster.opts.default

--
Karl