Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error
Date: 2008-09-03 23:13:38
Message-ID: 8793.1220483618@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> writes:
> The log says,
> postmaster successfully started

That's not the postmaster's log, that's just pg_ctl saying it managed
to find and exec the postmaster. I speculate that you are sending
the log to /dev/null which is why you cannot find out anything
about what's wrong.

You might try invoking the postmaster manually:

postmaster -D whateveritwas

which should let the error message come out on your terminal.

regards, tom lane

PS: please don't top post.

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