Subject: Re: Need clarification on "another server might be running;
 trying to start server anyway"
To: dmigowski@ikoffice.de, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
References: <20160706081139.1409.52190@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Organization: 2ndQuadrant
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 19:25:51 -0400
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On 7/6/16 4:11 AM, dmigowski@ikoffice.de wrote:
> I am currently facing an issue on Servers that are running PostgreSQL 9.5
> started from systemd, and in the case when the Servers power offs the hard
> way, and I restart it, I get an error &quot;another server might be running;
> trying to start server anyway&quot;
> 
> The Documentation section &quot;17.3.1. Server Start-up Failures&quot; should maybe
> mention that error and explain, in which cases postgresql thinks that it is
> still running, because neither the port is already taken, or are there
> logfiles on the server.
> 
> I also tried to remove postmaster.pid before starting postgres, but this
> strangely doesn&#39;t help either.

You get this error from pg_ctl if it finds an existing postmaster.pid
file.  So if you deleted it and still get the error, something went
wrong.  Please provide more details if it's reproducible.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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