On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:58, Scott Frankel wrote: > After a server crash forced a reboot, `pg_ctl start` fails with a FATAL > error. Log output says that the lock file, postmaster.pid, already > exists. > > Can I just su to root and delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will > this have nasty
Just check first to make sure there really are no postmasters running and you should be safe ps aex|grep post and if there's no output, delete the pid file. If there really are other postmasters or postgreses running, then kill them first. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
