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 delete the .pid file to relaunch? Or will
>> this have nasty
>
> Just check first to make sure there really are no postmasters running
> and you should be safe
>
> ps aex|grep post
>
> and if there's no output, delete the pid file. If there really are
> other postmasters or postgreses running, then kill them first.
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