Mark <ad...@asarian-host.net> writes: > Interesting. Yet, as I reported earlier, whilst a symlink does seem to start > the server, pg_ctl takes a long time to do so, and then report: "could not > start server" anyway. But it actually *does* get started. So I figured maybe > something was not entirely right with the symlink, either.
That sounds like pg_ctl isn't finding the postmaster's socket file ... were you playing games with the location of that, too? pg_ctl is not terribly bright about relocated socket files (in particular, it does not read the postmaster's postgresql.conf, so a nonstandard setting there for unix_socket_directory will confuse it). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs