Thank you Laurenz, Even executing $ postgres -D /data/directory Used to start server in deamon mode, the reason was the postgres.conf was having "silent_mode = on" ( freebsd port used to do this ). Got this solved by sending "silent_mode=off" command line. With this my problem is solved. Trying to train my watch dog to look into postmaster.pid is also good idea but I do not want to work on that as it is working fine. Regards Karthik On 5/25/12 1:50 PM, "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Karthik wrote: >> I have observed by default posgresql 8.x onwards starts as daemon >process. Is there a way to avoid >> it. I want it to run as normal process. The parent of the server >process should be the process that >> starts the server instead of being PID 1 ( init ). Till 7.4.2 ( Which >was the older version used by us >> ) was using running in normal mode. The same behavior is necessary as >we have our watchdog failing to >> identify that it server is actually running. >> >> ( Transcript to help you what I am talking about ) >> >> c670e04:rkananth 16] /usr/local/bin/postgres --version >> postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.0.7 >> >> c670e04:rkananth 11] postgres -D /data/db/postgres >> c670e04:rkananth 12] ps -A | grep post >> 65165 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/postgres >> 65167 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: writer process (postgres) >> 65168 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: wal writer process (postgres) >> 65169 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process >(postgres) >> 65170 ?? Ss 0:00.00 postgres: stats collector process >(postgres) >> 65224 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep post >> >> c670e04:rkananth 14] ps -p 65165 -o ppid >> PPID >> 1 >> >> c670e04:rkananth 15] ps 1 >> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND >> 1 ?? SLs 0:00.17 /sbin/init -- >> >> I would be happy to provide further information if required. > >If you really want that, start the PostgreSQL server this way: > >$ postgres -D /data/directory & > >But can't you teach your watchdog to read the postgresql.pid file? > >Yours, >Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
