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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:19:55 +0100
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q AT ping DOT be>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Teemu_Kanstr=E9n?= <teka AT mail DOT student DOT oulu DOT fi>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and postgresql
Message-ID: <20011101171955.A3182@ping.be>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111011749430.9449-100000@tuomi.oulu.fi>; from teka@mail.student.oulu.fi on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Teemu Kanstrén wrote:
> > >  I have PostgreSQL installed under Cygwin and it was running fine as a
> > > service on my NT. Then suddenly my NT hangs for no reason I can see and
> > > I tried to shutdown from the task manager but even that didnt work. So
> > > I just rebooted the computer with power off/power on. After that the
> > > postmaster service no longer starts.
> >
> > You probably have a stale pid file.  It's something very
> > annoying when you don't do a proper shutdown, and don't have
> > proper startup scripts.  I'm still looking for a good solution to
> > this.
> 
> How do I fix this then?

Just delete the postmaster.pid file.


Kurt


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