Re: FATAL: the database system is starting up

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:09 PM, patrick keshishian <pkeshish(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, William E. Moreno A.
> <wmoreno3(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>> Solution: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-12/msg01339.php
>> Solution: Message-id: <476D6DE1(dot)4050600(at)latnet(dot)lv>
>> <text/plain>
>>
>> Problem: FATAL:  the database system is starting up
>>
>> Solved:   change postgresql_flags in /etc/rc.conf to: postgresql_flags="-s -m fast" or postgresql_flags="-s -m smart"
>
> interesting enough, got bit by this recently. Our set up does not have
> a "-w" option. During upgrades we "cycle" our PostgreSQL daemon. We
> had to change the "pg_ctl stop" command to "-mimmediate" because
> during upgrades we would find that someone had an abandoned psql shell
> running for days and that would halt our upgrade script.
>
> Adding "-m immediate" for shutdown seemed like a logical choice to get
> around this sort of a "procedural" issue(s).

didn't -m fast work?