Re: Databse installation problem

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:49 +0530, Bhushan Verma wrote:
> Thanks for your quick response.
>
> I have copied this configuration file form my installed postgres
> 8.3.1
>
> I am pasting this file for your reference .
> By the way PGDATA is /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> Yes there is a log file file pgstartup.log
> PGLOG=/var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log
> its contains only ths startup and shutdown messages.
>
> /etc/init.d/postgres file contents

This config file is not right (Note: PGENGINE=/usr/bin)

Try staring up by hand as per the docs, then try using the startup
script that comes with postgresql instead of your existing script (which
looks to have been modified by whoever packaged the previous version of
postgresql; see postgresql-8.4.1/contrib/start-scripts/linux). Modify
as needed and try starting again.

Have you checked you can do an upgrade from 8.3.1 - 8.3.7 without a
dump? Quite possibly, but I'm not sure.

Tim Bowden