Sorry. My bad :)
After tracing postmaster as Alvaro suggested, I found the following fragment
(one of thousand):
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG
Alexey Parshin writes:
> And then found a link /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Australia to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Australia. Clearly, this isn't PostgreSQL
> fault. Removing that link solved it. Thanks a lot.
Ah-hah.
> A simple suggestion that would help in diagnostics: A message like 't
Please trace the postmaster, not pg_ctl, as Alvaro suggested
(or else add the -f flag to the strace call).
regards, tom lane
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Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Excerpts from Alexey Parshin's message of lun sep 27 16:56:01 -0400 2010:
>> PostgreSQL (fresh install) fails to start.
>> The only message in the log file says:
>> FATAL: too many private dirs demanded
> Weird. A result of some gentoo patch perhaps? Please try
Is it p
Excerpts from Alexey Parshin's message of lun sep 27 16:56:01 -0400 2010:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 5680
> Logged by: Alexey Parshin
> Email address: alex...@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.0
> Operating system: Gentoo Linux
> Descri
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5680
Logged by: Alexey Parshin
Email address: alex...@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.0
Operating system: Gentoo Linux
Description:Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded
Details:
PostgreSQL (fresh
