On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:05:21PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I tried to change the location of the PID target directory in
> > postgresql.conf, but then clients like psql still try to find the PID
> > file in /var/run/ postgresql and fail.
>
> You must be mistaken about this. psql shouldn't have a reason to read
> the server's PID file.
Sounds to me like he didn't actually uninstall the Debian postgresql
installation, which would leave a whole bunch of scripts lying doing
all sorts of interesting things...
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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