| From: | Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)lists(dot)simkin(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgres not starting |
| Date: | 2018-02-16 00:54:20 |
| Message-ID: | 1518742460.11219.15.camel@lists.simkin.ca |
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On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote:
> Hello,
> I am unable to start postgres on one of the server
> I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running
> on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry"
> I checked the processes nothing is running with postgres
>
> I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data
> directory before stopping the server.
> Can someone help.
>
>
kill -9 the old processes. The old postmaster is holding onto the port.
And probably some of the old file handles, too, so you might want to
re-init the new database cluster after really cleaning up the old one.
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