Re: Can't restart Postgres

On 02/14/2017 08:47 PM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
> No it doesn’t matter if run with sudo, postgres or even root. Debian
> actually wraps the command and executes some some initial scripts with
> different privileges but ends up making sure that Postgres ends up
> running under the postgres user. I get the same output if run with sudo:
>
> sudo systemctl status postgresql(at)9(dot)4-main(dot)service
> <mailto:postgresql(at)9(dot)4-main(dot)service> -l
> Error: could not exec start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -l
> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.4-main.log -s -o -c
> config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf”
>

So you are talking about:

/etc/init.d/postgresql

which then calls:

/usr/share/postgresql-common/init.d-functions

Or is there another setup on your system?

Any relevant information in the system logs?

> Thanks, though.
>
> -Shawn

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