On 6 March 2012 16:18, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:11:20 am Thom Brown wrote: >> On 6 March 2012 16:04, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The postmaster.pid is located outside the data directory, but points back >> > to the data directory. Not sure where Debian, though at a guess >> > somewhere in /var. Any way search for postmaster.pid. >> >> I'm not sure, because if I use a new data directory, initdb it and >> start the service, the postmaster.pid appears in it, and not as a >> symbolic link. >> >> I did a search for postmaster.pid in the whole of /var and it only >> shows up "/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/postmaster.pid" > > > My guess is if you open that file you will find it points back to the old > directory. So are you still running the Debian packaged version of Postgres? > Or in other words does a ps show any other postmasters running other than the > new one you built? No, only the ones running as the postgres user. Here's the contents of the pid file in /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/ 1199 /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main 1330883367 5432 /var/run/postgresql localhost 5432001 0 And if I start my development copy, this is the content of its postmaster.pid: 27061 /home/thom/Development/data 1331050950 5488 /tmp localhost 5488001 191365126 -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
