Re: Unable to start postgresql

On Wednesday 08 March 2017 11:37:27 Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 03/08/2017 07:37 AM, John Iliffe wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 March 2017 00:01:32 Tom Lane wrote:
> >> John Iliffe <john(dot)iliffe(at)iliffe(dot)ca> writes:
> >>> Now, running as user postgres I try and start as stated in the
> >>> manual postgres -D /usr/pgsql_tablespaces
> >>>
> >>> The result is:
> >>> [postgres(at)prod04 postgresql-9.6.2]$ postgres -D
> >>> /usr/pgsql_tablespaces LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot
> >>> assign requested address HINT: Is another postmaster already
> >>> running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
> >>> LOG: database system was shut down at 2017-03-07 22:22:57 EST
> >>> LOG: MultiXact member wraparound protections are now enabled
> >>> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
> >>> LOG: autovacuum launcher started
> >>
> >> To clarify: the postmaster *is* starting here. It failed to bind to
> >> the IPv4 port 5432, but it must have succeeded in binding to at
> >> least one other port (IPv6 and/or a Unix socket), else it would have
> >> stopped and you'd have not seen the last four log lines.
> >>
> >> It might be helpful to check with lsof to see what the postmaster
> >> process has open after you do this.
> >
> > I noticed that when I deleted the postmaster.pid file as suggested by
> > another answer and restarted that process issued a lot more messages
> > before crashing :-( Still couldn't connect to port 5432 though.
>
> Meant to ask before, can you show the command you are using to connect?

Yes:

[postgres(at)prod04 John]$ pg_ctl start -D /usr/pgsql_tablespaces

I tried psql but it won't work, as expected, because socket 5432 is not
available.

John