Re: Fw: Re: Could Not Connect To Server

On 4/23/20 1:24 PM, Dummy Account wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> I did find loggin.h and insallation_summary.log.  Neither of which look
> to include the info you may want.
> Please advise as to what log file you want to see.

Did you look under:

/Library/PostgreSQL/12/data

directory for sub-directory?:

log/

And under it for log files?

> Thanks
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 2:32 PM
> *From:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u(at)mail(dot)com>
> *To:* "Adrian Klaver" <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> *Cc:* "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general"
> <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
> Hey David,
> Can you tell me the exact name of the log file?  Then I can search for it.
> Thanks
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 2:25 PM
> *From:* "Adrian Klaver" <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> *To:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u(at)mail(dot)com>, "David G. Johnston"
> <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
> *Cc:* "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
> On 4/23/20 12:12 PM, Dummy Account wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > When I backed-up, I don't know if the server was offline?  I can say
> > that I was not running pgAdmin.  For instance, I backed up the Operating
> > System and all of its applications.  If I go run other application,
> > including other servers, they work.  As a matter of fact, if I boot into
> > the old hard drive while it is outside of the laptop, it still works
> > just as it did before I took it out of the laptop.
> > As far as your question of "And the relevant content from the log
> > directory log file?": what are you asking for?  That *is* the entire and
> > complete log after that command.
>
> Those are the messages sent to the screen. There are also messages sent
> to the Postgres server log. Not sure where the OS X install puts that,
> but I would start under /Library/PostgreSQL/12/data.
>
> > Thanks, I appreciate the help.
> > *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 1:55 PM
> > *From:* "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
> > *To:* "Dummy Account" <dummyaccount4u(at)mail(dot)com>
> > *Cc:* "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > *Subject:* Re: Could Not Connect To Server
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:48 AM Dummy Account <dummyaccount4u(at)mail(dot)com
> > <mailto:dummyaccount4u(at)mail(dot)com>> wrote:
> >
> > But here they are:
> >
> > waiting for server to start....2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255]
> > LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 12.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin, compiled by
> > Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.54) (based on LLVM 3.5svn), 64-bit
> > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address
> > "::", port 5432
> > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.766 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address
> > "0.0.0.0", port 5432
> > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.768 CDT [5255] LOG:  listening on Unix socket
> > "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
> > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.782 CDT [5255] LOG:  redirecting log output to
> > logging collector process
> > 2020-04-22 15:57:51.782 CDT [5255] HINT:  Future log output will
> > appear in directory "log".
> >
> > And the relevant content from the log directory log file?
> >
> >  stopped waiting
> > pg_ctl: could not start server
> > You might be misunderstanding where I said restore, I did not backup
> > the database, I restored an Operating System because I changed out
> > my hard drive for a solid state drive; therefore, I had to restore
> > my Operating System from Time Machine/(backup).
> >
> > And was that Time Machine backup made while the server was offline?  If
> > not, and you didn't take any explicit steps to backup and restore the
> > database itself, then your database may be corrupted and thus unable to
> > boot.  The log file should indicate whether that is the case.
> > David J.
>
>
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> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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