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Thijser
Asked: 2013-12-04 04:51:48 +0800 CST

pg_ctl: command not found, what package has this command?

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I have installed pgadmin using the ubuntu software center and am trying to access a local database (recently downloaded from the internet). I have tried to run the pg_ctl command (running as postgres) however this gives a command not found error. I have also ran the following commands: 

echo $PATH: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

so that's a bit of a weird place but still. whereis pg_ctl: pg_ctl: /usr/share/man/man1/pg_ctl.1.gz type pg_ctl: -su: so it's somewhere on my system type: pg_ctl: not found which looks wrong

apt-cache policy postgres-xc gives me a No such file or directory error the output of

sudo apt-get install postgres-xc is 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package postgres-xc

sudo apt-get -q update gives me : 

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list gives me :

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130820.1)]/ dists/precise/main/binary-i386/

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130820.1)]/ dists/precise/restricted/binary-i386/
#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20130820.1)]/ precise main restricted

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postgresql

3 Answers

  1. You shouldn't run pg_ctl directly under Ubuntu/Debian. Use pg_ctlcluster instead, which is installed by postgresql-common. See its man page for documentation.

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  2. Best Answer

    You should edit your path:

    $ cd ~
$ vim .profile
PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/postgresql/{version}/bin
export PATH
$ . ~/.profile

    Replace {version} with the correct version number.

    And now you can execute the command from the shell:

    pg_ctl --help
pg_ctl is a utility to initialize, start, stop, or control a PostgreSQL server.
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  3. use this code:

    sudo pg_ctlcluster 'cluster_version' 'cluster-name' 'action'

    where:

    /etc/postgresql/**cluster-version**/**cluster-name**/start.conf

    where action: 

    start|stop|restart|reload|status|promote

    example my code:

    /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/pg_hba.conf

sudo pg_ctlcluster 9.5 main reload
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