Re: Can't restart Postgres

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <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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