Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> wrote: > itishree sukla <itishree.su...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can any one give me more suggestion, about this problem. Every >> time my os got restart, postmaster.pid is missing. The pid file should only be present when postgres is running. A clean OS shutdown should stop postgres, which should result in the pid file being deleted. > Did you perhaps use reboot instead of shutdown -r? The former > doesn't do a clean shutdown. That's how it is on *BSD at least, I > don't know about Linux but I assume it behaves the same. No, `reboot` actually calls `shutdown -r now` in the distros I've used, including Ubuntu; unless you run it with the --force option. > Check the logs to see if there are any errors when postgres tries > to start up. It could be something as simple as a library version > mismatch, or it could be data corruption in the database files. Right, checking the log files is the thing to do. Adding or deleting a pid file is just about never the right thing to do. -- Kevin Grittner EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
