On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:09:41 am Thom Brown wrote: > 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. Humph, need more coffee. > > > 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: env variables? -- 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
