Unable to start postgres instance.

Hi,

I am in the process of setting postgres replication and I have followed the documentation from the website below.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-master-slave-replication-on-postgresql-on-an-ubuntu-12-04-vps

I have completed all the steps and when I was about to start the slave server, seems like it got hung up on the start up and is taking forever to be available. Here is the process list I am seeing.

-bash-4.3$ ps -ef | grep -i postgres
postgres 29842 29841 0 14:01:45 pts/3 0:00 -bash
postgres 42808 42806 0 15:17:19 ? 0:00 /opt/local/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql/data
postgres 45713 31142 0 15:35:45 pts/2 0:00 ps -ef
root 31141 29120 0 14:11:05 pts/2 0:00 sudo -u postgres -i
postgres 42806 6491 0 15:17:19 pts/2 0:00 /opt/local/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql/data
postgres 31142 31141 0 14:11:05 pts/2 0:00 -bash
postgres 45712 42806 0 15:35:44 ? 0:00 /opt/local/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql/data
root 29841 29835 0 14:01:43 pts/3 0:00 sudo -u postgres -i
postgres 45714 31142 0 15:35:45 pts/2 0:00 grep -i postgres
postgres 42807 42806 0 15:17:19 ? 0:00 /opt/local/bin/postgres -D /var/pgsql/data

Below is the error I am seeing when I am trying to log on to the DB using psql client.

-bash-4.3$ psql -U postgres
psql: FATAL: the database system is starting up

However its been on that from quite a long time. It would really appreciate if anyone could explain me on what is really going on.

Thank You,
Sajan Gone
Database Administrator
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