Dear Debian experts,
I just upgraded an old Sarge server to Etch.
After the upgrade, I notice that the postgresq-7.4 server is not working.
ie : the postgreql process wont start by itself on system boot up
I dont know why the postgreql process wont start by itself - when I
did
/etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 start
as superuser the postgresql server did not start.
so I replaced the system supplied file
/etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4
with the following file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting PostgreSQL daemon..."
su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/postmaster -D \
/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main > /dev/null 2>&1 &'
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping PostgreSQL daemon..."
su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_ctl \
stop -m smart -D /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main '
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
status)
su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_ctl status -D \
/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main '
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
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now all works.
Questions
1) I dont know what went wrong with the upgrade... I did not make any changes
to postgresql.
This may have something to do with the new 7.4 / 8.1 split, but
1. I did not install 8.1
2. I have upgraded other servers before and dont remember this problem.
3. I also notice that now the postgres user can no longer use
pg_ctl status - It says that pg_ctl is not found.
ie her ( :) ) PATH does not include
/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/, which may be part or all of the problem.
1. How should the sytem be working now?
2. has any one else had this problem?
How should I rectify the problem?
Mitchell
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