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urgent: another postmaster
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| Scott Frankel 2005-05-23, 8:24 pm |
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After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL
error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already
exists.
Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will
this have nasty side-effects?
Thanks in advance!
Scott
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| Scott Marlowe 2005-05-23, 8:24 pm |
| On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:58, Scott Frankel wrote:
> After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL
> error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already
> exists.
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> Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will
> this have nasty
Just check first to make sure there really are no postmasters running
and you should be safe
ps aex|grep post
and if there's no output, delete the pid file. If there really are
other postmasters or postgreses running, then kill them first.
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| Scott Frankel 2005-05-23, 8:24 pm |
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Bingo -
Thanks!
On May 23, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:58, Scott Frankel wrote:
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> Just check first to make sure there really are no postmasters running
> and you should be safe
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> ps aex|grep post
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> and if there's no output, delete the pid file. If there really are
> other postmasters or postgreses running, then kill them first.
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