David <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > First: When I restart the Ubuntu server, the Postgres instance is > started and listens on port 5432 using ssl as requested. However, it > does not created its postmaster.pid file in the PGDATA directory. The postmaster will certainly not start without creating a postmaster.pid file. What I think is happening is that you are confused about where PGDATA is, ie, the start script has some other value for it than you think. > Second: If I manually stop the system and then start it (su postgres) > using "pg_ctl start" the system starts and creates its postmaster.pid > file correctly. However, this time port 5432 remains closed and I > cannot connect from the outside. Sounds like your idea of PGDATA contains different configuration files than the start script's idea of it --- after the port number, listen_addresses and pg_hba.conf would be the things to check. regards, tom lane
