Re: postmaster does not come up

This is a little vague...

There is a way to recover the data. Make postmaster come back up. Unless
you're talking about postmaster not coming up due to corrupted data files,
or a hardware failure.

You do need to use pg_dump at regular intervals. It is common practice to
back up data, after all.

Now, instead of being vague, let's see if you can't give us a bit more
information about why your postmaster is failing to start. Have you tried
starting it manually? For example, running postmaster directly from the
command line. Like so:

postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

Replace "/usr/local/pgsql/data" with the path to your own. If postmaster
fails to come up, what errors/warnings did it report?

On 12/5/05, surabhi.ahuja <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in> wrote:
>
> hi all..
> sometime back i had asked a question
> is ther no way to recove the database in case postmaster fails to come
> up??
>
> i dont remember what was there in the log file ... i had seen it sometime
> back ...for which i dont have the logs
>
> i dint check if by restarting the system the problem would go away?..
>
> do u need to take pg_dump then at regular intervals ?
>
> thanks,
> regards
> Surabhi
>