On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:27:41PM -0800, P?ter Kov?cs wrote: > I suspect that Sun's "official" documentation for PostgreSQL's SMF > integration > (http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/postgresqlhowto.jsp#2) > is not what the PostgreSQL folks would readily call "carefully > written": > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-02/msg00169.php. > > The crux is that the "parent" postmaster process should be started by > a process which itself is not owned by the "postgres" user - if my > understanding of the PostgreSQL recommendation is correct. I do not > know how to achieve this behaviour with SMF, but I suspect that above > mentionned Sun documentation does not do it.
I don't read it that way. The issue appears to be a left-over lock file and that seems to be because the stop method timeout for this service is too short. Nico --
