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postmaster does not start up

From
Andrew Perrin - Demography
Date:
Greetings - this is with a newly-compiled 7.0.3 under debian 2.2 on a
pentium box.  All compiling went just fine; however, although the
postmaster is running based on ps, it can't be accessed. Any ideas will be
much appreciated.

postgres@nujoma:~$ declare -x PGDATA="/var/lib/postgres/data"
postgres@nujoma:~$ ls /var/lib/postgres/data
PG_VERSION   pg_geqo.sample        pg_hba.conf  pg_xlog
base         pg_group              pg_log       postmaster.opts
pg_control   pg_group_name_index   pg_shadow    postmaster.opts.default
pg_database  pg_group_sysid_index  pg_variable
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start
postmaster successfully started up.
postgres@nujoma:~$ DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Tue Dec  5
12:37:46 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System was shut down at Mon Dec  4 13:48:41 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System is in production state at Tue Dec  5 12:37:46
2000

postgres@nujoma:~$
postgres@nujoma:~$ psql
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
socket '5432'?

postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl status
pg_ctl: postmaster is running (pid: 1775)
options are:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
-p 5432
-D /var/lib/postgres/data
-B 64
-b /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
-N 32
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop
Smart Shutdown request at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
postmaster successfully shut down.
DEBUG:  Data Base System shutting down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System shut down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -w start
Waiting for postmaster starting up...DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting
up at Tue Dec  5 12:38:06 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System was shut down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System is in production state at Tue Dec  5 12:38:06
2000
............................................................pg_ctl:
postmaster does not start up
postgres@nujoma:~$ ps aux | grep postmaster
postgres  1816  0.0  1.0  4280  996 pts/4    S    12:38   0:00
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
postgres  2005  0.0  0.4  1108  404 pts/4    S    12:41   0:00 grep
postmaster


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Re: postmaster does not start up

From
"Oliver Elphick"
Date:
Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
  >Greetings - this is with a newly-compiled 7.0.3 under debian 2.2 on a
...
  >postgres@nujoma:~$ psql
  >Connection to database 'template1' failed.
  >connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
  >Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
  >socket '5432'?

If you have package libpgsql2 installed, get rid of it; or compile from the
Debian source.  Because of conflict with other packages, the location of the
Unix socket is now different in Debian.

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v7.1 RPMs

From
"Gordan Bobic"
Date:
Have the RPMs been published yet? I seem to remember somebody saying that
they should be on the web site by the last weekend, but I can't find them.
A link would be appreciated... I need some of the new features, but I'd
rather avoid working out all the strange file locations (i.e. not
/usr/local) for a RH6.2 system...

Cheers.

Gordan

Re: postmaster does not start up

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Andrew Perrin - Demography <aperrin@demog.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> Greetings - this is with a newly-compiled 7.0.3 under debian 2.2 on a
> pentium box.  All compiling went just fine; however, although the
> postmaster is running based on ps, it can't be accessed. Any ideas will be
> much appreciated.

> postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start

> postgres@nujoma:~$ psql
> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
> Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
> socket '5432'?

Hmm.  Where are you invoking psql from, and is it the same one you
compiled yourself?

ISTR that the Debian RPMs use a nonstandard location of the pgsql Unix
socket file, which means that an RPM psql will NOT talk to a standard
compilation of the postmaster, nor vice versa.

I've complained about that packaging choice in the past ;-)

            regards, tom lane

Re: v7.1 RPMs

From
"Adam Lang"
Date:
7.1 isn't released yet, let alone the rpm's.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordan Bobic" <gordan@freeuk.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] v7.1 RPMs


> Have the RPMs been published yet? I seem to remember somebody saying that
> they should be on the web site by the last weekend, but I can't find them.
> A link would be appreciated... I need some of the new features, but I'd
> rather avoid working out all the strange file locations (i.e. not
> /usr/local) for a RH6.2 system...
>
> Cheers.
>
> Gordan

Re: v7.1 RPMs

From
Lamar Owen
Date:
Gordan Bobic wrote:
>
> Have the RPMs been published yet? I seem to remember somebody saying that
> they should be on the web site by the last weekend, but I can't find them.
> A link would be appreciated... I need some of the new features, but I'd
> rather avoid working out all the strange file locations (i.e. not
> /usr/local) for a RH6.2 system...

They will be ready soon.  I said that I usually have them available
within a week after release -- release was this past weekend.  However,
if you need the new features _in_production_ you would be advised to
wait until a non-beta 7.1 release.

If you are just wanting to test new features, then the first beta is
appropriate -- but, IMO, it is not appropriate to put the first beta
into a production environment -- even though this first beta appears
pretty solid (as PostgreSQL betas typically are), it is _beta_. Also,
the first beta RPMs will probably only be available for RedHat 6.2 and
RedHat 7 at first.  Other distributions will be available later in the
beta cycle.

I hope to have time to work on the 7.1beta1 RPM's this week -- but my
work schedule has delayed me, thanks to some bad weather coming in to
our area.

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Lamar Owen
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1 Peter 4:11

Re: [ADMIN] Re: postmaster does not start up

From
Lamar Owen
Date:
Tom Lane wrote:
> Hmm.  Where are you invoking psql from, and is it the same one you
> compiled yourself?

> ISTR that the Debian RPMs use a nonstandard location of the pgsql Unix
> socket file, which means that an RPM psql will NOT talk to a standard
> compilation of the postmaster, nor vice versa.

Um, the Debian packages are .deb's, not RPM's.  Is the standard socket
location not /tmp? That's where the RPM's put it.  I don't know about
the DEB's -- ask Oliver.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

Re: [ADMIN] Re: postmaster does not start up

From
"Oliver Elphick"
Date:
Lamar Owen wrote:
  >Tom Lane wrote:
  >> Hmm.  Where are you invoking psql from, and is it the same one you
  >> compiled yourself?
  >
  >> ISTR that the Debian RPMs use a nonstandard location of the pgsql Unix
  >> socket file, which means that an RPM psql will NOT talk to a standard
  >> compilation of the postmaster, nor vice versa.
  >
  >Um, the Debian packages are .deb's, not RPM's.  Is the standard socket
  >location not /tmp? That's where the RPM's put it.  I don't know about
  >the DEB's -- ask Oliver.

No. /var/run/postgresql - it was necessary to move them, because long-open
sockets were being deleted from /tmp (it is, after all, a _temporary_
directory) by tmpreaper.


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      from my youth."               Psalms 71:5

Re: [ADMIN] Re: postmaster does not start up

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
>   >Tom Lane wrote:
>   >> Hmm.  Where are you invoking psql from, and is it the same one you
>   >> compiled yourself?
>   >
>   >> ISTR that the Debian RPMs use a nonstandard location of the pgsql Unix
>   >> socket file, which means that an RPM psql will NOT talk to a standard
>   >> compilation of the postmaster, nor vice versa.
>   >
>   >Um, the Debian packages are .deb's, not RPM's.  Is the standard socket
>   >location not /tmp? That's where the RPM's put it.  I don't know about
>   >the DEB's -- ask Oliver.
>
> No. /var/run/postgresql - it was necessary to move them, because long-open
> sockets were being deleted from /tmp (it is, after all, a _temporary_
> directory) by tmpreaper.

/var/run seems like a good spot for it.  How do you make sure clients
see it?  Do you have a symlink in /tmp?

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