Re: Postgres service is not starting

On Monday, August 28, 2023, Vinit Saini <vinits(at)linecraft(dot)ai> wrote:

> The service was running fine, then I restarted the system and service was
> not starting. Force service restart says "service started and then
> stopped".
> In, Event Viewer, I found "pre existing memory block is still in use".
>
> I have tried restarting the service after deleting postmaster.pid and
> posgresql.conf, as suggested at number of places, which I do not
> understand
> really.
>
> I have also tried reinstall PostgreSQL on previous data directory, that
> also
> does not work.
>
> Can you please help?
>

Sounds like the service was already running post-reboot and your attempts
to start it correctly failed since it was already running.

Your attempts at correcting things likely just made it worse/harder to
recover. This is why people like virtual machines - start from scratch
with the software and then restore your backups.

I have no idea how you’d expect the software to run if you remove its
configuration file. You should undo that.

David J.