On 6 March 2012 17:00, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? /home/thom/Development/data was causing problems so: mv data databroken mkdir data initdb ... working fine again. I then used the postmaster.pid from this when started up. But if I do: pg_ctl stop rm -rf data mv databroken data initdb ... error messages appear again. > 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. Unlikely since pg_ctl isn't available in my search path once I remove my local development bin dir from it. All non-client tools for the packaged version aren't available to normal users. Those are all in /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin. The only ones exposed to the search path through symbolic links are: clusterdb createdb createlang createuser dropdb droplang dropuser pg_dump pg_dumpall pg_restore psql reindexdb vacuumdb vacuumlo -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
