7.0 configuration

Started by Belcher, Jimabout 25 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Belcher, Jim
JBelcher@elastic.com

Hello,

I have just updated to 7.0 and have observed the following:

When the system boots, and Postgres is attempting to
start, I get the following error: 564, unary operator expected.

Yet after boot, I can see that postmaster is running and I
can connect to it with my application.

[root@Belcher jbelcher]# ps -aef | grep post
postgres 559 1 0 07:33 ? 00:00:00 [pg_ctl]
postgres 561 559 0 07:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -i
postgres 899 561 0 07:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postgres localhost
root
root 991 985 0 07:35 ttyp0 00:00:00 grep post

Previous to this reboot, I was not able to run psql, it failed with a
statement
that I had "Too many clients".(there were none). After the reboot, I was
able
to connect with psql even with the above error.

Anyone have any idea what going on?

Jim

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Belcher, Jim (#1)
Re: 7.0 configuration

"Belcher, Jim" <JBelcher@elastic.com> writes:

When the system boots, and Postgres is attempting to
start, I get the following error: 564, unary operator expected.

I don't believe any part of Postgres itself issues such an error code.
Perhaps the message is coming out of your shell, which would suggest
some portability problem in the pg_ctl shell script. Try running
pg_ctl by hand and/or inserting debugging echo commands to see if you
can narrow down where the problem is.

What platform are you on, anyway?

regards, tom lane

#3Trewern, Ben
Ben.Trewern@mowlem.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
RE: 7.0 configuration

On occasions I have had similar errors when starting up. I'm using Mandrake
7.0.3-2mdk RPMs on Mandrake 7.2. The server still starts and runs OK.

Have done a complete reinstall since the last time I had this error so can
be of little more help.

Regards

Ben

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: 03 February 2001 20:18
To: Belcher, Jim
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 configuration

"Belcher, Jim" <JBelcher@elastic.com> writes:

When the system boots, and Postgres is attempting to
start, I get the following error: 564, unary operator expected.

I don't believe any part of Postgres itself issues such an error code.
Perhaps the message is coming out of your shell, which would suggest
some portability problem in the pg_ctl shell script. Try running
pg_ctl by hand and/or inserting debugging echo commands to see if you
can narrow down where the problem is.

What platform are you on, anyway?

regards, tom lane