Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour with Xfs filesystem and unix_socket_directory

2007-07-24 Thread Denis Gasparin
Setting PGHOST solved the problem! It was not clear to me that pg_ctl is actually a client and it doesn't read the configuration from postgresql.conf Thank you, Denis Tom Lane ha scritto: > Denis Gasparin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> We configured the unix_socket_directory in postgresql.

Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour with Xfs filesystem and unix_socket_directory

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Gasparin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We configured the unix_socket_directory in postgresql.conf to point to a > folder in a xfs filesystem. I don't think pg_ctl can deal with nondefault settings of unix_socket_directory, because it does not make any attempt to parse the postmaster's postgr

[GENERAL] Strange behaviour with Xfs filesystem and unix_socket_directory

2007-07-24 Thread Denis Gasparin
We configured the unix_socket_directory in postgresql.conf to point to a folder in a xfs filesystem. The problem is that pg_ctl tries to start the daemon but after 1 minute it gives up with the following message: could not start postmaster. The strange thing is that the postmaster is there, up an