Re: Can't restart Postgres

On 02/14/2017 12:00 PM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
> Yes that would be the standard approach. But the Debian package removes
> pg_ctl from it normal place and wraps it with a perl script in a way
> that makes it difficult to work with (it doesn’t accept the same arguments):
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql#pg_ctl_replacement
>
> @Mangnus, can you give me an example of how I might use pg_lsclusters
> and pg_ctlcluster? I’ve tried:
>

I do not see a sudo below or is it apparent whether you are doing this
as the postgres user.

> pg_ctlcluster 9.4 main start
> 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”

Not sure how close Debian 8 is to Ubuntu 16.04(something I use), but
from your first post they look like they share the same startup scripts.
So something like:

sudo systemctl restart postgresql(at)9(dot)4-main(dot)service

>
> -Shawn
>
>> On Feb 14, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net
>> <mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
>> <mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/14/2017 11:43 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
>>
>> pangaea:/var/log# systemctl status postgresql
>> ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
>> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service;
>> enabled)
>> Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-02-14 10:48:18 PST;
>> 50min ago
>> Process: 28668 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited,
>> status=0/SUCCESS)
>> Main PID: 28668 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>> CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql.service
>>
>>
>> What about if use pg_ctl as the postgres user? That will give you
>> a better idea.
>>
>>
>> You don't want ot be doing that on a systemd system, but try a
>> combination of pg_lsclusters and pg_ctlcluster. Might be you need to
>> shut it down once that way before it realizes it's down,and then start
>> it back up.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Magnus Hagander
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>

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