Re: [GENERAL] Can't restart Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Feb 14, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:

On 02/14/2017 05:00 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:

On 02/14/2017 12:00 PM, Shawn Thomas wrote:

Yes that would be the standard approach.  But the Debian package removes
pg_ctl from it normal place and wraps it with a perl script in a way
that makes it difficult to work with (it doesn’t accept the same
arguments):

https://wiki.debian.org/PostgreSql#pg_ctl_replacement

@Mangnus, can you give me an example of how I might use pg_lsclusters
and pg_ctlcluster?  I’ve tried:

I do not see a sudo below or is it apparent whether you are doing this
as the postgres user.

pg_ctlcluster 9.4 main start
Error: could not exec   start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -l
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.4-main.log -s -o  -c
config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf”

Not sure how close Debian 8 is to Ubuntu 16.04(something I use), but
from your first post they look like they share the same startup scripts.
So something like:

sudo systemctl restart postgresql@9.4-main.service

                ^^^^^^^
     Should be  start

-Shawn

On Feb 14, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net
<mailto:magnus@hagander.net>> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com
<mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>> wrote:

   On 02/14/2017 11:43 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:

       pangaea:/var/log# systemctl status postgresql
       ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service;
       enabled)
          Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-02-14 10:48:18 PST;
       50min ago
         Process: 28668 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited,
       status=0/SUCCESS)
        Main PID: 28668 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
          CGroup: /system.slice/postgresql.service


   What about if use pg_ctl as the postgres user? That will give you
   a better idea.


You don't want ot be doing that on a systemd system, but try a
combination of pg_lsclusters and pg_ctlcluster. Might be you need to
shut it down once that way before it realizes it's down,and then start
it back up.


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