On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
The short answer is probably "don't use Slackware's startup script". Some distros have PG start scripts that have had the bugs beaten out of them, and others not so much.
Excellent advice, Tom. I'll take it.
Have you read the script to see what condition causes it to issue the mentioned error? I'd imagine that it's looking at some other lockfile than you think.
I tried following the logic, and it appears the issue now is 'invalid data in PID file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" '. If I delete that file, is it automatically recreated? I'm using /usr/bin/pg_ctl as user postgres. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
