Francisco Olarte <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 6:57 PM Kelly, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We’re attempting to launch postgres via systemd and noticing that when
>> invoking via systemctl start postgres.service the prompt never returns. If
>> we switch to another tty and check the status it shows as:
>> Active: activating (start) since Thu 2019-06-06 09:36:32 EDT; 12min ago
>> If we change the type from notify to forking we see the same behavior. The
>> instance seems to be up and running just fine, we just never see the active
>> (running) status as we have come to expect.
> Are you sure you have the postgres.service correctly configured? ( or
> you could post the ExecStart/Type config, or the whole service file ).
> The type tells systemd how to know the service has finished starting
> and is running, notify means it does systemd integration via socket,
> with IIRC postgres does not.
I might be confusing this with some other issue, but I think PG does
support systemd notification if you build it with the --with-systemd
configuration option. This is recommended if you're using systemd
to launch PG, because systemd's other options for figuring out the
service state work substantially less well.
regards, tom lane
