> I think that that unwritable postgresql.conf file had probably been
> hanging around in your data directory for some time. It was not causing
> any particular problem until we decided we ought to fsync everything in
> the data directory after a crash. So this is indeed the same case
> Christop
twoflower writes:
> I was doing this after I upgraded to 9.4.2, yes. As for the shut down: I
> suspect the server was rebooted without explicitly stopping Postgres. Not
> sure how this plays out in terms of cleanliness. This is everything relevant
> in the log file after I ran the start script:
>
> From root, presumably ...
Yes
> I thought of a different theory: maybe the server's complaint is not due
> to trying to read that file as a config file, but it's just because there
> is an unreadable/unwritable file in the data directory. See Christoph
> Berg's complaint at
> http://www.post
On 05/23/2015 02:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Adrian Klaver writes:
So on my Ubuntu installs it does not set up the postgres user to allow login,
so how are you getting to:
su postgres -c ...
From root, presumably ...
Aargh, so used to the little voice telling me not to do things as root I
for
Adrian Klaver writes:
> So on my Ubuntu installs it does not set up the postgres user to allow login,
> so how are you getting to:
> su postgres -c ...
>From root, presumably ...
I thought of a different theory: maybe the server's complaint is not due
to trying to read that file as a config fil
On 05/23/2015 08:23 AM, twoflower wrote:
> Testing this, the problem appears to be that you forgot the keyword
> "start", so pg_ctl didn't really do anything.
>
> I am sorry, that was just a mistake on my part here, it is in the script.
>
> I suspect this was left over from some previ
> Testing this, the problem appears to be that you forgot the
> keyword"start", so pg_ctl didn't really do anything.
I am sorry, that was just a mistake on my part here, it is in the script.
> I suspect this was left over from some previous attempt.
It doesn't look like it. I tried several times
