Thread: [GENERAL] iso-8859-1 lvalue 'PIDFILE' in section 'Service'

Hi

Today I installed postgresql 9.4 on Lubuntu 15.04 from the EnterpriseDB's package.

I modified pg_hba.conf to accept connections from the local network, and tried to start the backend. It do not; looking the log, I can see the message I copied to the subject. The full log entry is [/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service:12] Unknown lvalue 'PIDFILE' in section 'Service'

But the corresponding entry in /lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service shows PIDFILE=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data/postmaster.pid which is perfectly valid, because the
data dir is Environment=PGDATA=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data

What is going wrong?

TIA

Marcelo

On 06/28/2017 05:06 AM, marcelo wrote:
> Hi
>
> Today I installed postgresql 9.4 on Lubuntu 15.04 from the
> EnterpriseDB's package.
>
> I modified pg_hba.conf to accept connections from the local network, and
> tried to start the backend. It do not; looking the log, I can see the
> message I copied to the subject. The full log entry is
> [/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service:12] Unknown lvalue 'PIDFILE'
> in section 'Service'
>
> But the corresponding entry in
> /lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service shows
> PIDFILE=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data/postmaster.pid which is perfectly
> valid, because the
> data dir is Environment=PGDATA=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data
>
> What is going wrong?

I am no systemd expert by any means, but I have to believe that it
should be:

Environment=PIDFILE=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data/postmaster.pid



>
> TIA
>
> Marcelo
>
>


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

On 28/06/17 10:17, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 06/28/2017 05:06 AM, marcelo wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Today I installed postgresql 9.4 on Lubuntu 15.04 from the
>> EnterpriseDB's package.
>>
>> I modified pg_hba.conf to accept connections from the local network,
>> and tried to start the backend. It do not; looking the log, I can see
>> the message I copied to the subject. The full log entry is
>> [/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service:12] Unknown lvalue
>> 'PIDFILE' in section 'Service'
>>
>> But the corresponding entry in
>> /lib/systemd/system/postgresql-9.4.service shows
>> PIDFILE=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data/postmaster.pid which is perfectly
>> valid, because the
>> data dir is Environment=PGDATA=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data
>>
>> What is going wrong?
>
> I am no systemd expert by any means, but I have to believe that it
> should be:
>
> Environment=PIDFILE=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/data/postmaster.pid
>
Hi Adrian

Thank you very much.

I tried your "recipe" and it was the solution.

But I had to change the pg_hba.conf permissions, from
-rw------- 1 root root 4318 jun 28 06:57 data/pg_hba.conf
to
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4318 jun 28 06:57 data/pg_hba.conf

I note this, because others may find the same issue. Now, the server is
started!

Marcelo