Re: postmaster.pid disappeared

Hi,
Thank you all for the respond.
I should probably mentioned that postgres is maintained by smf, which
is a service management tool in solaris 10.
I asked our sys admin to remove postgres from being managed by smf.
he did that. But right now he is having problem because the system
could not start because of some mounting problems.
I will report back any progress I have.
In the meantime, any ideas or suggestions or things that I can do to
provide more infor will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

J

On 5/24/05, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > The zombies couldn't be dead backends if the postmaster has gone away:
> > in every Unix I know, a zombie process disappears instantly if its
> > parent dies (since the only reason for a zombie in the first place
> > is to hold the process' exit status until the parent reads it with
> > wait()).
>
> yeah, I think I spoke too soon. What it looks like is that pg_ctl is
> reporting success while actually failing to shut down the postmaster.
> Solaris makes it a little hard to read; parent-process relationships aren't
> as clear as they are in Linux.
>
> --
> --Josh
>
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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