Re: Postgres is not starting or stopping

You will always have a postmaster binary - do a "find / -name
postmaster" to find it.

If your secondary production server hasn't gone live yet, I'd seriously
consider starting it up on the 8.2 series.

Manish Pillai wrote:
> I have installed it using rpm..So "bin" folder is not available
> inside pgsql :-(
>
> Manish
>
>
>
>
> */Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>/* wrote:
>
> Instead of starting with the service, trying starting up with
> 'postmaster' binary. It can be found in the database server 'bin'
> folder and that should give a little more detail failure message.
>
> To enable logging please go through --> " 16.4.5. Error Reporting
> and Logging" at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/runtime-config.html
>
> --
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com/>)
>
> On 2/2/07, *Manish Pillai* <manishg_pillai(at)yahoo(dot)com
> <mailto:manishg_pillai(at)yahoo(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am getting only this much...
>
> [root(at)KLC2 init.d]# ./postgresql restart
> Stopping postgresql service:
> [FAILED]
> Starting postgresql service:
> [FAILED]
> [root(at)KLC2 init.d]#
> How to enable log in postgres...Please help
>
> Regards
> Manish
>
>
>
>
> */Shoaib Mir < shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>>/* wrote:
>
> If you can tell the specific error on start/stop then
> someone might be able to help you with this...
>
> --
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com
> <http://www.enterprisedb.com/>)
>
> On 2/2/07, *Manish Pillai* <manishg_pillai(at)yahoo(dot)com
> <mailto:manishg_pillai(at)yahoo(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have two production server .One ia already live
> and the other is going to live soon.
>
> In the 1st server i have postgres 7.4.6 and having no
> problem
>
> In the second server we have postgres (PostgreSQL)
> 7.4.15. Here i have made a mistake. I have removed
> postgresql..conf and pg_hba.conf and kept the same
> files from the first server (7.4.6).
>
>
> After this process the postgres is not able to
> start/stop. Then i removed the two files which i have
> copied from the first server and copied the the
> orginal files to the exact place
> (/var/lib/pgsql/data).But still the database is not
> able to start or stop..
>
>
> Please help if u have any idea
>
> Regards
> Manish
>
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