Not sure I really understand what's going on.
Originally, I'm trying to connect to a remote host (which I can ping, access via SSH) but cannot connect through psql
Error: psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host <HOST> and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
After checking a couple of things, I stumbled upon different results from postgresql.service
and postgresql@10-main
:
postgresql.service — active (exited)
~ sudo systemctl status postgresql.service
● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL RDBMS
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Don 2018-01-04 15:24:14 CET; 2min 29s ago
Process: 10954 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 10954 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
postgresql@10-main — active (running)
~ systemctl status postgresql@10-main
● postgresql@10-main.service - PostgreSQL Cluster 10-main
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postgresql@.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Don 2018-01-04 15:24:14 CET; 5min ago
Process: 10920 ExecStop=/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster --skip-systemctl-redirect -m fast %i stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCC
Process: 10929 ExecStart=postgresql@%i --skip-systemctl-redirect %i start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 10936 (postgres)
CGroup: /system.slice/system-postgresql.slice/postgresql@10-main.service
├─10936 /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/10/main -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/1
├─10938 postgres: 10/main: checkpointer process
├─10939 postgres: 10/main: writer process
├─10940 postgres: 10/main: wal writer process
├─10941 postgres: 10/main: autovacuum launcher process
├─10942 postgres: 10/main: stats collector process
└─10943 postgres: 10/main: bgworker: logical replication launcher
Jan 04 15:24:12 floppy systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL Cluster 10-main...
Jan 04 15:24:14 floppy systemd[1]: Started PostgreSQL Cluster 10-main.
- Is this related to my problem with connecting to the remote host ?
- Why are two different services running (showing different results) ?
PS: I'm running on Ubuntu 16.04
Thanks a lot
Best Answer
Ubuntu and Debian
If you're using Ubuntu, rather than using systemd's
systemctl
to gauge the status of your clusters use the distro's ownpg_lsclusters
. It'll tell you if they're running and the port number,