Re: problem with psql?

(Oops...originally sent this to Jim, instead of the group)

Thanks for the reply...Yes, we do have ARD installed on the machine,
but I believe the postgres instance that we see running (through ps
auxw | grep postgres) is our server instance (pointed at our data
directory), not the ARD instance. We are still able to connect to
our database using psql (and via JDBC). Does this still seem like it
could be an ARD conflict?

On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> I've heard from others that OS X's remote desktop equivalent uses an
> internal PosgreSQL database in an embedded install that uses the
> default
> PostgreSQL port. That could be the cause of your trouble...
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:24:37PM -0600, Timothy Perrigo wrote:
>> We just ran an OS update on an Xserve which runs our PostgreSQL
>> server, and now it seems that pg_ctl status doesn't report the
>> correct status.
>>
>> ~ postgres$ pg_ctl status
>> pg_ctl: neither postmaster nor postgres running
>>
>> ~ postgres$ ps auxw | grep postgres
>> postgres 491 0.0 -0.1 33156 1160 ?? S 1:09PM
>> 0:00.16 /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /Volumes/DBRAID/pgsql/data
>> postgres 629 0.0 -0.0 31844 216 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.27
>> postgres: logger process
>> postgres 631 0.0 -0.0 33140 744 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.06
>> postgres: writer process
>> postgres 632 0.0 -0.0 31860 276 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.02
>> postgres: archiver process
>> postgres 633 0.0 -0.0 32864 164 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.02
>> postgres: stats buffer process
>> postgres 634 0.0 -0.0 31888 284 ?? S 1:09PM 0:00.03
>> postgres: stats collector process
>>
>>
>> We are able to connect to the instance (using psql), but cannot shut
>> down or restart the instance using pg_ctl (it just reports that the
>> server is not running). We are running PostgreSQL version 8.0.0 and
>> Mac OS X 10.3.9. Can anyone tell us what's going on?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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