On 6/1/20 12:04 AM, Tanja Savic wrote:
Hi,
@Tom Adding -D in command worked. I just used
pg_ctl start -D [data-directory ]
You would be better off using the tools provided to manage clusters with
the Ubuntu/Debian packaging:
https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql
So as I mentioned previously:
sudo pg_ctlcluster 12 main stop
sudo pg_ctlcluster 12 main start
The wrapper script that drives the above takes care of the below.
PGDATA was not set permanently although I tried to set it (with postgres user):
export PGDATA=" /var/lib/postgresql/12/main"
@Adrian It's Ubuntu and output of pg_lsclusters was this:
12 main 24538 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/12/main /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-12-main.log
Thank you for your replies.
BR,
Tanja
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 5:32 PM
To: Tanja Savic <tanja.savic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: pg_ctl can't start db server
Tanja Savic <tanja.savic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The configuration file path is /etc/postgresql/12/main/ postgresql.conf and it is configured in /var/lib/postgresql/12/main/postmaster.opts:
"/usr/lib/postgresql/12/bin/postgres "-D" "/var/lib/postgresql/12/main" "-c" "config_file=/etc/postgresql/12/main/postgresql.conf"
Why does pg_ctl complains about the postgresql.conf path?
I don't remember the exact interaction between -D and an explicit config_file setting, but evidently it's not working the way you wish.
See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-file-locations.html
which suggests that you should use -D to point at the directory where postgresql.conf is, and set the data directory with a parameter within postgresql.conf.
(Note that pg_ctl probably only understands this way, even though theoretically the postmaster can deal with other approaches to setting up an external config file.)
regards, tom lane
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Adrian Klaver
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