On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:44:10 am Thom Brown wrote: > >> 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? > > I got the above output when I created a new data directory and initdb'd it. Still not understanding. In your original post you said /home/thom/Development/data was the original directory you could not initdb. How could it also be the new directory you can initdb as indicated by the postmaster.pid? >From your previous post: thom@swift:~/Development$ pg_ctl stop pg_ctl: could not send stop signal (PID: 2807): No such process Doing the above without qualifying which version of pg_ctl you are using or what data directory you are pointing is dangerous. The combination of implied pathing and preset env variables could lead to all sorts of mischief. > > /tmp shows: > > 4 -rw------- 1 thom thom 55 2012-03-06 16:22 > .s.PGSQL.5488.lock > 0 srwxrwxrwx 1 thom thom 0 2012-03-06 16:22 > .s.PGSQL.5488 > > Once it's up and running. These disappear after though. When using > the old data directory again, there's no evidence of anything like > this 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
