Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 200609281632.k8SGWXb28878@momjian.us
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In response to Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts?  ("Lane Van Ingen" <lvaningen@esncc.com>)
Responses Re: What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL  (Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>)
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Lane Van Ingen wrote:
> Forgot about 'pg_ctl status'. That will work fine for my needs.
>
> Ray Stell mentioned it would be helpful to see a description of all the
> things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. I agree. It
> helps to know the logic going on behind the scenes when things break. I had
> a problem in August where PostgreSQL would not come up; I finally traced it
> to broken links in the libraries, but it took a long time to find .... and
> there were no error messages logged to help. Does this kind of information
> exist anywhere?

The information exists only in the source code.

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