Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

From: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error
Date: 2008-09-03 22:25:07
Message-ID: 20080903152507.70034578@jd-laptop
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:19:25 -0700
"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> wrote:

>
> It says,
> pg_ctl: 5432: not found
> postmaster successfully started

pg_ctl doesn't take a -p argument for the port. -p is reserved for the
path to the postmaster. Try:

pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start

Joshua D. Drake

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