Thanks Richard! I finally got it work. It was caused byethe PGDATA
environment variable. I fixed it the .cshrc and reran initdd, then
everything's back to normal.
Yes, our current postgres is very old and I'm setting up 7.4.8 on
another box.
Thanks again,
Thanh
Richard Huxton wrote:
Thanh Q Lam wrote:
Hi,
We have a problems with postgresSQL 7.1.3 that suddenly all databases
don't work, and it logged the following message,
I'm sure you know that's an old version, but I'll recommend upgrading
anyway.
pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
Smart Shutdown request at Fri Jul 8 09:19:47 2005
DEBUG: shutting down
DEBUG: database system is shut down
I ran pg_ctl restart/start/stop, nothing works and the error log
showed this message,
The same message every time?
simba[postgres][44]% more postmaster.log.994
/rms2/pgsql/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.
Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/nsm/pgsql/data",
but unable to open file "/nsm/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": No
such file or directory
Is the file there?
Are the permissions/ownership right?
I tried setenv PGDATA to /nsm/pgsql/data, but it still doesn't work.
Then I moved the current data directory to data.bak and ran initdb
--pgdata /nsm/pgsql/data to initialized the data cluster and replaced
the data.bak with data, but no luck the postgres server still failed
starting up.
Did the initdb work?
Was the error message the same?
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Archonet Ltd
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