Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres 8.4.4-1 (Enterprise db) problems -- system hosed?

[Dave Cramer]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Karsten Hilbert
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:28:56PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
>
>> > > but can find no init.d in /etc
>> > >
>> > > Does it seem my system is hosed?
>> >
>> > Jim,
>> >
>> > there is not init.d in OS X it uses a completely different mechanism.
>> > The best way to install pg on a mac is using the source and building
>> > it. The start script should be in /Library/StartupItems
>> >
>> Whoa. Hold it. First we need to find out what exactly the problem is Jim is
>> referring to.
>
> I would assume that Jim is referring to the fact that one of
> the recommended methods of making PostgreSQL aware of
> pg_hba.conf changes (namely running /etc/init.d/postgresql-X.Y restart)
> won't fly on MacOSX since he wasn't able to identify that script.
>
> Which is due to Mac using a different startup mechanism. The
> solution is to find out how to do the equivalent on Mac and
> document that in the wiki.
>
>> The mentioning of init.d makes me believe Jim used google to find out
>> something about the status of pg (e.g. is it running, which clusters are up)
>
> Jim has been developing (and documenting) skillz re that on
> Debian, some of which aren't transferrable verbatim (but
> most definitely in concept).

 SystemStarter restart PostgreSQL  should restart postgres,
alternatively sending postgres a HUP will reload it.

Dave
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> Karsten
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