A deep bow to all the pgsql hackers. Excellent Db. I've got this open source web-based game called Merchant Empires (www.merchantempires.net) based on Trade Wars. I opened the beta this past week, a couple thousand people signed up and the game is going great, my database move from 100K to over 3 megs. Today I shut the database down to increase the number of backends, using -N 60 -B 130 (is that right?), and for an extended period I couldn't get it to restart. Running Mandrake 7.1 and PostgreSQL 7.03. The SysV startup script would fail. I tried running pg_ctl as postgres and that failed too. Does pg_ctl log its failure somewhere? Also thinking about mounting data dir from a ram disk. Would this increase performance? Thanks please forward replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
