On 7/6/16 4:11 AM, dmigow...@ikoffice.de wrote: > I am currently facing an issue on Servers that are running PostgreSQL 9.5 > started from systemd, and in the case when the Servers power offs the hard > way, and I restart it, I get an error "another server might be running; > trying to start server anyway" > > The Documentation section "17.3.1. Server Start-up Failures" should > maybe > mention that error and explain, in which cases postgresql thinks that it is > still running, because neither the port is already taken, or are there > logfiles on the server. > > I also tried to remove postmaster.pid before starting postgres, but this > strangely doesn't help either.
You get this error from pg_ctl if it finds an existing postmaster.pid file. So if you deleted it and still get the error, something went wrong. Please provide more details if it's reproducible. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
