Re: initdb error message - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: initdb error message
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Msg-id 200703231334.20108.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to initdb error message  (Susanne Ebrecht <miracee@miracee.de>)
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Am Freitag, 23. März 2007 11:44 schrieb Susanne Ebrecht:
> I tried an initdb and got a error message about no space left on device
> and semaphores stuff (the message was in german, because my system is
> german, that's the reason, I don't paste this message here).
>
> No hint, that I just have forgotten, to stop the daemon.
>
> Is it possible to add a  hint  in that error message, that maybe just
> the daemon is still running?

If a daemon is still running in the same directory, you will get an error
message that the directory still exists.  Therefore, the daemon must be
running in a different directory, and there is no definite reason why you
should stop that one.  It might be serving some other application.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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