Re: Can't restart Postgres

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 <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:

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”

-Shawn

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> 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.
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