Fair warning this was in 8.1beta1 so perhaps this is fixed already.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./start80.sh
pg_ctl: another postmaster may be running; trying to start postmaster anyway
FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5480001, ID 4063233) is still in
use
HINT: If you're sure there are n
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the difference being that in 8.0 we printed the full path of the pid file, in
> 8.1 we do not. there could be a good reason for this,
Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
which we have already chdir'd into at this point)
Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > the difference being that in 8.0 we printed the full path of the pid file,
> > in
> > 8.1 we do not. there could be a good reason for this,
>
> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
> which we have al
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
>> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).
> So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> guess).
I don't think that follows
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 14:59, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > the difference being that in 8.0 we printed the full path of the pid
> > file, in 8.1 we do not. there could be a good reason for this,
>
> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative
Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah: it's now being accessed by a relative path (relative to $PGDATA,
> >> which we have already chdir'd into at this point).
>
> > So we should include PGDATA in the error message (DataDir actually, I
> > guess