On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=axolotl&dt=2015-07-24%2020%3A29%3A18 > > What evidently happened there is that "pg_ctl start" gave up waiting for > the postmaster to start too soon. The postmaster log appears to contain > > LOG: database system was shut down at 2015-07-24 16:45:40 EDT > FATAL: the database system is starting up > LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled > LOG: database system is ready to accept connections > > which indicates that it did successfully come up, but not till after one > "PQping" probe from pg_ctl, which was rejected with "still starting up".
For the record, that was not a PQping() probe. Since "connection to database failed: FATAL: the database system is starting up" appeared in the buildfarm log, it was pg_upgrade attempting to connect after its pg_ctl had given up. > Meanwhile we've got this log output from pg_ctl: > > waiting for server to start........ stopped waiting > pg_ctl: could not start server > Examine the log output. > > Counting the dots indicates that pg_ctl gave up after precisely 5 seconds. Thanks for improving that. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers