postgres

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Peter Eisentraut	fc946c39ae	Remove useless whitespace at end of lines	15 years ago
Tom Lane	8f5500e6bd	Make it reasonably safe to use pg_ctl to start the postmaster from a boot-time script. To do this, have pg_ctl pass down its parent shell's PID in an environment variable PG_GRANDPARENT_PID, and teach CreateLockFile() to disregard that PID as a false match if it finds it in postmaster.pid. This allows us to cope with one level of postgres-owned shell process even with pg_ctl in the way, so it's just as safe as starting the postmaster directly. You still have to be careful about how you write the initscript though. Adjust the comments in contrib/start-scripts/ to not deprecate use of pg_ctl. Also, fix the ROTATELOGS option in the OSX script, which was indulging in exactly the sort of unsafe coding that renders this fix pointless :-(. A pipe inside the "sudo" will probably result in more than one postgres-owned process hanging around.	16 years ago
Tom Lane	97e3a6e9c5	Remove inappropriate cd commands, per David Wheeler. Also make the PATH responsive to the installation prefix, which was the apparent intent of the previous edit, but not well executed.	18 years ago
Bruce Momjian	18e3992e56	Add standard error redirection for OS/X & darwin startup script. Les Hill	19 years ago
Bruce Momjian	87a9473276	Update /contrib OS/X startup files, and move to a separate OS/X directory. Mark Cotner and David Fetter	19 years ago
Tom Lane	c8196c87a7	Adjust postmaster to recognize that a lockfile containing its parent's PID must be stale. Tweak example startup scripts to not use pg_ctl but launch the postmaster directly, thereby ensuring that only the postmaster's direct parent shell will be a postgres-owned process. In combination these should fix the longstanding problem of the postmaster sometimes refusing to start during reboot because it thinks the old lockfile is not stale.	21 years ago
Bruce Momjian	af96aa9ab1	I wanted to submit some changes to the bundled postgres startup script for Mac OS X. I added calls to utilize the bundled apache rotatelogs script in the DB startup for log rotation. Also modified startup parameters file to allow using the "SystemStarter" utility to start/stop/restart postgres with a rotating log file. The script credits David Wheeler, 2002. I wrote him a message about the changes an he suggested I post them here. I explain some of the changes below. Not sure how to submit the changes. I have 3 files, "PostgreSQL" script, "StartupParameters.plist" file, "pg_startupscript.diff" file. The diff file was run against the original "PostgreSQL" script file. I'll try attaching them to this message. If they get filtered I can resend if needed. Thanks. Ray A. ------------------------------------ 1) Changed the "Provides" parameter in StartupParameters.plist to "PostgreSQL" from "postgres database" simply for ease of typing. It seems that the SystemStarter utility uses the "Provides" value if you want to control the script. This way I did not have to enclose it in quotes on commandline. The modified StartupParameters.plist is now an XML document also. 2) For the startup script I added 2 user modifiable variables: # do you want to rotate the log files, 1=true 0=false ROTATELOGS=1 # logfile rotate in seconds ROTATESEC="604800" I also added a non modifiable variable: # The apache log rotation utility LOGUTIL="/usr/sbin/rotatelogs" I modified the StartService and RestartService functions to execute the new commands if the user wants log rotation. Ray Aspeitia	22 years ago
Bruce Momjian	f719f0f6db	Typo fix in comment from David Wheeler	22 years ago
Bruce Momjian	b842726fc7	I've simplified the Darwin/Mac OS X startup script I submitted earlier in the year. This version has only the two files required by the Darwin startup bundle design. Plus the sh script now uses Darwin-standard functions to start up PostgreSQL, and it checks for the presence of a variable in /etc/hostconfig, as do other Darwin startup scripts. I suggest that a new directory be created, contrib/start-scripts/darwin, and that these two files be put into it. Folks who want to use the script can read the comments inside it to figure out how to use it. David Wheeler	23 years ago

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