Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

Even the command pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start
Does not start the server, I mean the message I get on running the
command, is:
postmaster successfully started

But the status still shows,
pg_ctl: postmaster or postgres is not running

Also when I try to access psql, it gives me the following error..

psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:25 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 15:19:25 -0700
"Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> wrote:

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

pg_ctl doesn't take a -p argument for the port. -p is reserved for the
path to the postmaster. Try:

pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start

Joshua D. Drake

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