Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

It says,
pg_ctl: 5432: not found
postmaster successfully started

But when I check the status, by using the command pg_ctl status,
Its says,
pg_ctl: postmaster or postgres is not running

Any idea when the postmaster.pid file is created?, because after giving
the start command I cannot see the .pid file in the directory it is
supposed to be.
Logically, I am assuming that, when the start command is given, pg_ctl
start, the postmaster.pid file gets created.

But this does not happen in my case, is there a way to debug, whether
any script has gotten corrupted?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:13 PM
To: Akhtar Yasmin-B05532
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:58:45 -0700
"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am using the following command to start the database:
>
> pg_ctl start -p 5432 -D /home/data/www/pg7/data
>
> Yes I know, 7.2 is a very old version, but that's what we have to work

> with for now..

So what does your logging say?

Joshua D. Drake

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