Re: postgres not starting

The poster writes ....

" I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data
directory before stopping the server. "

If you did remove the data directory, you will need to kill any processes
hanging on then initdb -D /your/data/directory

Without a data directory it will not start.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:

> Alan Hodgson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am unable to start postgres on one of the server
> > > I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running
> on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry"
> > > I checked the processes nothing is running with postgres
> > >
> > > I think the error caused because I removed everything under /data
> directory before stopping the server.
> > > Can someone help.
> >
> > kill -9 the old processes. The old postmaster is holding onto the port.
> > And probably some of the old file handles, too, so you might want to
> re-init the new database
> > cluster after really cleaning up the old one.
>
> This seems excessive - maybe the server he wants to start is already
> running and there is no need to crash or wipe it.
>
> To give a better answer we would have to know which operating system
> it is, which PostgreSQL version and how it was installed.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
> --
> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
>
>

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Thanks,

Jorge Torralba
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