On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:24:20 am Thom Brown wrote: > > > No, only the ones running as the postgres user. In my original read, I missed the part you had the Ubuntu/Debian packaged version running. > > 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 So how are getting the file above? I thought initdb refused to init the directory and that you could not find pid file it was referring to? Just on a hunch, what is in /tmp? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general