From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jordz <jordan.d.carter@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql-8.4 won't boot at startup on 9.10
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:38:46 -0400
Message-ID: <24771.1270579126@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2x207237521004011953ja2fafc2j1e220ff5c49ffc1e@mail.gmail.com>
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Jordz <jordan.d.carter@gmail.com> writes:
> I have just moved to rackspacecloud and created a Ubuntu 9.10 server.
> Moved everything over all fine (7-10 wordpress sites). Now I have a
> couple rails apps that need to move over and run on postgresql 8.4.
> I installed postgresql via sudo apt-get as per usual. Usually at this
> point the postgresql server starts up and I can forget about it. But
> no luck. I booted it by running /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start. When
> I run that command it boots fine, I can connect via psql no trouble.
Usually, just installing a package is not enough to make it autostart
at boot --- if that were true then people could never safely "install
everything". I think you missed a step. On Red Hat systems you'd need
something like "sudo chkconfig postgresql on"; probably Ubuntu is
similar.
regards, tom lane
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