Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL

2006-09-28 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:32 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Lane Van Ingen wrote: > > Forgot about 'pg_ctl status'. That will work fine for my needs. > > > > Ray Stell mentioned it would be helpful to see a description of all the > > things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. I a

Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL

2006-09-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Lane Van Ingen wrote: > Forgot about 'pg_ctl status'. That will work fine for my needs. > > Ray Stell mentioned it would be helpful to see a description of all the > things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. I agree. It > helps to know the logic going on behind the scenes when

Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts?

2006-09-27 Thread Lane Van Ingen
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:16 AM To: Lane Van Ingen Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts? "Lane Van Ingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > QUESTION: what are the few last steps that Postgr

Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts?

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Lane Van Ingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > QUESTION: what are the few last steps that PostgreSQL does when it starts > up? I am looking for things that I can check to be sure it has completed > installation (from a script) before allowing the script to proceed to the > next step, like: I'm con

Re: [ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts?

2006-09-27 Thread Ray Stell
actually, wouldn't it be interesting to see a description of all the things that go on from start to finish, in general or course. It helps to know the logic behind the scenes when things break; not if, when. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:05:24AM -0400, Lane Van Ingen wrote: > QUESTION: what are

[ADMIN] What Are Last Steps Performed When PostgreSQL Starts?

2006-09-27 Thread Lane Van Ingen
We are running PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 platforms that are deployed worldwide. In our most recent release, we started using a Java tool called IZPack to install and start up our application, including PostgreSQL. We are finding that we need to slow down this Java tool as it