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From Helge Bahmann
Subject Re: How to restart postmaster after a violent shutdown ?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0108011352550.19545-100000@lothlorien.stunet2.tu-freiberg.de
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In response to How to restart postmaster after a violent shutdown ?  (Gaetan GUYODO <gaetan.guyodo@lrb.ap-hop-paris.fr>)
Responses Re: How to restart postmaster after a violent shutdown ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Gaetan GUYODO wrote:
> Hi,
> a few minutes ago, an electric fail... my computer had a violent shutdown !
[...]
> What must I do, just restart postmaster, or clean some files, or do something
> else ?

Manually remove the socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 and postmaster should start
again

regards,
Helge

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