Re: [GENERAL] hard shut down of system

2006-04-12 Thread Tom Lane
"surabhi.ahuja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if postmaster is running and i do, > kill -9 -1 > i.e. i did abrupt shut down > i am not able to start postmaster What happens exactly when you try --- what error messages does it print? What method are you using to try to start the postmaster (pg_ctl

Re: [GENERAL] hard shut down of system

2006-04-11 Thread Jonel Rienton
I will first check the logfiles then the stale pid file. On 4/12/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if postmaster is running and i do, > > kill -9 -1 > i.e. i did abrupt shut down > > now when i brought back the system > > i am not able to start postmaster > > actually i want to simu

[GENERAL] hard shut down of system

2006-04-11 Thread surabhi.ahuja
if postmaster is running and i do,   kill -9 -1 i.e. i did abrupt shut downnow when i brought back the system i am not able to start postmaster actually i want to simulate, the scenario is which the user will do 'hard shut down / Power off'while system is in working state.. and i want to ens