Thread: Startup successful message, even on failure
A number of times when I've attempted to start the postmaster (using pg_ctl start) I've gotten Fatal error messages (usually when I don't have the shmmax/shmall settings correct) followed by a success message (something like "postmaster sucessfully started"). I don't currently have any shell output saved showing this, but I believe it's happened with PG versions as late as 8.0.3. If needed, I'll try to replicate it (Don't want to reset my shmmax/shmall and restart my laptop if I don't have to.) Has anyone else seen this? Is this something that can be fixed for 8.1? Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com
Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com> writes: > A number of times when I've attempted to start the postmaster (using > pg_ctl start) I've gotten Fatal error messages (usually when I don't > have the shmmax/shmall settings correct) followed by a success > message (something like "postmaster sucessfully started"). Unless you use -w, this isn't a bug, it's the expected behavior. regards, tom lane