Johann Maar wrote:
> But if I try to start PostgreSQL by running "sudo /etc/init.d/
> postgresql start" it will fail because it tries to write a PID file
> to "/var/run/postgresql" which does not exist. If I create this
> directory and set the permissions for postgres to write it works (!),
> but after the next restart of the machine the directory is already
> gone.
/var/run/ might be on a temporary file system. So you need to adjust
your init script to create that directory if it doesn't exist.
> 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.
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Peter Eisentraut
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