Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] postmaster.pid not visible

2008-07-17 Thread Decibel!
Moving to -general. -hackers is for discussion about PG development. On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:10 AM, cinu wrote: Hi All, I installed PostgreSQL-8.3.1 on my Suse Linux machine You should upgrade; I'm pretty sure 8.3 is up to 8.3.3 now. , it went on fine without any problems and I was able to

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] postmaster.pid not visible

2008-07-17 Thread Tom Lane
Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moving to -general. -hackers is for discussion about PG development. On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:10 AM, cinu wrote: Can anyone throw light on why the postmaster.pid was not visible, My guess would be that something went in and removed the .pid file. I was

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] postmaster.pid not visible

2008-07-17 Thread Douglas McNaught
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if the postmaster was running in some other data directory than the OP thought. I've never heard of anything just randomly removing a .pid file from a data directory; and it would be extremely dangerous if that