On April 21, 2015 09:34:51 PM Jan de Visser wrote:
> On April 21, 2015 09:01:14 PM Jan de Visser wrote:
> > On April 21, 2015 07:32:05 PM Payal Singh wrote:
... snip ...
>
> Urgh. It appears you are right. Will fix.
>
> jan
Attached a new attempt. This was one from the category 'I have no idea how
that ever worked", but whatever. For reference, this is how it looks for me
(magic man-behind-the-curtain postgresql.conf editing omitted):
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ initdb -D data
... Bla bla bla ...
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ pg_ctl -D data -l logfile start
server starting
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ tail -5 logfile
LOG: database system was shut down at 2015-04-21 22:03:33 EDT
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ pg_ctl -D data reload
server signaled
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ tail -5 logfile
LOG: database system was shut down at 2015-04-21 22:03:33 EDT
LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ pg_ctl -D data reload
server signaled
pg_ctl: Reload of server with PID 14656 FAILED
Consult the server log for details.
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$ tail -5 logfile
LOG: autovacuum launcher started
LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files
LOG: received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files
LOG: syntax error in file "/home/jan/Projects/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf"
line 1, near end of line
LOG: configuration file "/home/jan/Projects/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf"
contains errors; no changes were applied
jan@wolverine:~/Projects/postgresql$