RE: pgaccess not connecting - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bill Barnes
Subject RE: pgaccess not connecting
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In response to pgaccess not connecting  (Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com>)
List pgsql-general
That's it.
Found the switch in /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init.

Thank you very much,
Bill

>===== Original Message From Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> =====
>Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com> writes:
>> kgb10:/home/billb# /etc/init.d/postgreql start -i
>> Starting PostgreSQL postmaster
>> kgb10:/home/billb# ps ax | grep postmaster
>> 24746 pts/5    S      0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -b
>>             /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres -B 128 -D
>>             /var/lib/postgres/data -d 0
>
>> What could account for the missing -i switch in the running postmaster?
>
>Are you sure your /etc/init.d/postgreql is designed to pass its own
>commandline switches on to the invoked postmaster?  Usually startup
>scripts don't do that, since they are not designed to be run by hand
>but from /etc/rc.  My bet is that there is a config file somewhere that
>the init.d script is reading (which is where the other switches given
>to the postmaster are coming from).  You need to put -i in that file.
>
>            regards, tom lane


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