Re: restarting postmaster - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: restarting postmaster
Date
Msg-id 1090.1204739936@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to restarting postmaster  ("Marc Fromm" <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu>)
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"Marc Fromm" <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> writes:
> My system is Fedora Core 7 running postgresql 8.2.3-2.
> I can shutdown postgres and the postmaster with the single command
> "pg_ctl stop -m smart."

> According to the documentation I can restart the postmaster with "pg_ctl
> start." When I enter pg_ctl start, everything starts except the
> postmaster.
> Checking ps ax | grep post displays 4 postgres processes and no
> postmaster.

One of them is the postmaster.

postmaster and postgres are identical in recent PG releases;
what you're looking at is just a difference between pg_ctl and
the initscript about which name they choose to use.

            regards, tom lane

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