Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?! - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!
Date
Msg-id 11521.1061845670@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!  (Steve Santacroce <steves@csh.rit.edu>)
List pgsql-admin
Tree view 
Steve Santacroce <steves@csh.rit.edu> writes:
> /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /pgdata -l /var/log/pgsql
> and nothing, postmaster still doesn't start!

You forgot the "start" keyword.  I'm surprised pg_ctl fails to complain...

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-admin by date:

Previous
From: Jonathan Ellis
Date:
Subject: Tuning: WAL disk speed
Next
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: System Tables