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
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