Re: Postgres 7.1 RPM

Daniel Iordan wrote:
>
>    If you do not shut down the database correctly, with
> /etc/init.d/postgresql stop (let's say you have a powercut),

On a powercut, you have other problems.  A system shutdown will execute
the stop script if the right sysv initscript tools are used to insert
the postgresql script into the boot chain. On RH 7, use chkconfig to do
this.

> when you try
> /etc/init.d/postgresql start it doesn't work.
> After deleting the file
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid everything is okay.

Automatically deleting the pid file would be a bad thing.

Thanks for the report!
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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