Re: [GENERAL] urgent: another postmaster

2005-05-23 Thread Scott Frankel
Bingo - Thanks! On May 23, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: 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

Re: [GENERAL] urgent: another postmaster

2005-05-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
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