Re: [EXT EMAIL] Re: First Time Starting Up PostgreSQL and Having Problems

Brent Bates <BBates(at)langleyfcu(dot)org> writes:
> I found the problem. I cleared everything out and started from scratch, then slowly added my changes back to the configuration files. The problem was in the postgresql.conf. At the bottom of the file I had uncommented all the ‘include’ lines, so they looked like this:
> include_dir = '' # include files ending in '.conf' from
> # a directory, e.g., 'conf.d'
> include_if_exists = '' # include file only if it exists
> include = '' # include file

> The first one is what caused all the headaches. I recommented out these lines and everything works now. Thanks for all the quick suggestions.

Ah-hah! I wonder if we should disallow empty values for these GUCs?
And/or put in some kind of test for recursive opening of the same
config file? I don't think it'd occurred to anyone that it's this
easy to get the code to try to do that.

regards, tom lane