Re: restart error

Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:
> [postgresql@stell ~]$ pg_ctl restart  -D /var/pgsql/data
> waiting for postmaster to shut down............................................................... failed
> pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down
> [postgresql@stell ~]$

> yet postmaster is gone:

Looking at the code, it seems that pg_ctl is waiting for the postmaster
lock file (/var/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid) to disappear.  Perhaps you've
got some kind of file permissions bollix that prevented the postmaster
from removing that file?

            regards, tom lane