Re: Server tries to read a different config file than it is supposed to

On 05/23/2015 07:01 AM, rob stone wrote:
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> On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 04:23 -0700, twoflower wrote:
>> I thought I understood how specifying a config file path for the
>> server works, but that's apparently not the case.
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>> The cluster data is at /storage/postgresql/9.4/data.
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>> The config files are at /etc/postgresql/9.4/main (this is the default
>> location on Ubuntu).
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>> This is how the beginning of /etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf
>> looks like:
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>> data_directory = '/storage/postgresql/9.4/data'
>> hba_file = '/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_hba.conf'
>> ident_file = '/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/pg_ident.conf'
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>> So I wrote a few scripts to make my life easier, e.g. pg94start.sh:
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>> su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl
>> -D /storage/postgresql/9.4/data -o '-c
>> config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf'"
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>> But running this script did not work, the server would not start. So I
>> checked the log file and there was:
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>> FATAL: could not open file
>> "/storage/postgresql/9.4/data/postgresql.conf": Permission denied
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>> After fixing the ownership of this file, it worked.
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>> What's the reason the server was trying to access that file? Why does
>> not the override given by the config_file parameter work?
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>> Thank you.
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>> Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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> Similar hassles with Debian. I use scripts like this to start the
> server.
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> #! /bin/sh
> PGDATA=/home/postgres/data94;export PGDATA
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin;export PATH
> PGBINARIES=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin;export PGBINARIES
> cd /usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin
> ./pg_ctl start
> exit 0
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> I have different scripts depending on the version of Postgres that I
> need. I know that I could have a generic script and just pass in the
> variables. I run them as the postgres user.
> It reads the conf file from the PGDATA path.

Any particular reason you do not use pg_ctlcluster?:

https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql#pg_ctl_replacement

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> HTH.
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> Robert
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