Package: postgresql-common Version: 184.pgdg+1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? Step to reproduce - install postgresql 10 - create a new 10 postgresq cluster from pg_createcluster command ex : pg_createcluster 10 jp -p 5444 The cluster is well created and the following information is displayed : Success. You can now start the database server using: /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/10/jp -l logfile start - connect under postgres Debian account and try to start the cluster with the previous command. It fails. /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/10/jp start waiting for server to start....postgres: could not access the server configuration file "/var/lib/postgresql/10/jp/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory stopped waiting pg_ctl: could not start server The reason is when you use pg_createcluster to create the cluster, the postgresql.conf file is under "/etc/postgresql/10/<CLUSTERNAME>" not under "/var/lib/postgresql/10/jp/postgresql.conf" . So, correct command for starting the cluster is /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl -D /etc/postgresql/10/<CLUSTERNAME> start For me, the correct command for starting the cluster should be displayed when creating a cluster from pg_createcluster. Thanks for your work. *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15), LANGUAGE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages postgresql-common depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii postgresql-client-common 184.pgdg+1 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 ii ssl-cert 1.0.39 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages postgresql-common recommends: ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1 Versions of packages postgresql-common suggests: pn libjson-perl <none> -- debconf information excluded