Commit Graph

19 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
c4fc082a5a Modify freebsd start script to just exit 0 with message. 2010-02-23 22:17:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1f0cf56be2 Update startup scripts for Linux and FreeBSD.
Kevin Grittner
2010-02-23 22:15:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
d5e0029862 Add some simple support and documentation for using process-specific oom_adj
settings to prevent the postmaster from being OOM-killed on Linux systems.

Alex Hunsaker and Tom Lane
2010-01-11 18:39:32 +00:00
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.
2009-08-27 16:59:38 +00:00
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.
2008-01-16 21:00:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18e3992e56 Add standard error redirection for OS/X & darwin startup script.
Les Hill
2007-05-30 19:58:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87a9473276 Update /contrib OS/X startup files, and move to a separate OS/X
directory.

Mark Cotner and David Fetter
2007-05-30 18:10:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6809c064d7 Be consistent about not using ECHO_N/ECHO_C (seems unnecessary on Linux). 2006-07-13 14:44:33 +00:00
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.
2004-10-01 18:30:25 +00:00
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
2004-03-09 01:59:13 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f719f0f6db Typo fix in comment from David Wheeler 2003-11-12 03:27:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9df03060e9 Fix for Linux startup script.
Slawomir Sudnik
2003-07-26 20:42:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
310c084921 Add Linux restart --- Slawomir Sudnik
Add "-l $PGLOG" for restart --- Darko Prenosil
2003-06-12 02:02:24 +00:00
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
2002-12-09 21:26:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d4cafeba31 Patch to add comments to Linux startup script.
Rene Pijlman
2001-07-30 14:52:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
031e1afa23 Pass -D option to pg_ctl because export PGDATA won't be preserved across
'su -l'.

Reported by <VASQUEZ_JASON@LILLY.COM>.
2001-04-19 19:17:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
fdf87fdf7b Add new FreeBSD start script that makes use of new pg_ctl functionality. 2001-02-10 00:13:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bbac19a973 Remove outdated contrib/linux start scripts. Beat some sense into
contrib/init.d start script.  Place into more aptly named directory.  Maybe
we could add scripts for other platforms here later.
2001-02-08 19:53:33 +00:00